I'll putting together the FSL brake kit from BigbrakeUpgrades. Granted, I bought everything awhile ago and am finally able to bolt the calipers on. The passenger side bolts up properly and has about 1/8" gap from the rotor. The driver side is a different story. The caliper sits too close to the rotor and isn't squared up either. The gap is close to 1/32". I swapped the parts individually from side to side, and the conclusion I'm getting is holes are a combination of drilled too close to the center or not perfectly perpendicular. What do you all think?

 

I'm trying to figure it a solution. I've come to with:

• Do nothing
• Get a new steering knuckle
• Redrill and use thread inserts
• File the face of where the brackets meets the knuckle, so it's on a slight angle

 

You've got 1 - 3, butt left out THE FIRST important one.

Step 0: Figure out why it's sideways in the first place, and address THAT ONE PARTICULAR fault, directly. Could be as simple as a chunk of rust somewhere, or as complicated as, you need wheel bearings so your rotor sits straight. That last happened to me just the other day, on a completely other kind of vehicle. I spanked myself vigorously at length after noticing that, almost up to the point at which I began enjoying the spanking, at which point I realized that I was being ... weird ..., and changed out the WB instead.

 

Thank you for the laugh, I needed that.

I have a fresh hub with brand new bearings. I can verify it's tightness and then pull it off to get behind the dust shield. Thank have to happen tomorrow at this point.

 

I finally for time to get in the garage today.

• Double checked the bearing was tightened properly without noticable play, it's good
• Took off the dust shield, bolted bracket to knuckle, caliper is still angled
• Flipped bracket around, caliper still angled
• Everything looked clean and flat

I'm pretty sure it's the bottom hole that is causing the issues.

 

Wouldn't be hard to run a flat file over it to check for high spots.

 

I ran the file across the surfaces. The flats on the knuckle were not perfectly flat, but it still isn't the culprit. I'm solidly in the boat of, the bottom hole isn't perpendicular to the plane.

 

Possibly bent from being dropped at some point?

 

That's possible too. That puts me in the search for a new to me spindle.