I needed a caliper bracket bolt once, none at any of the local dealerships, hardware stores, junkyards. I had to drive to a dealership four hours away to get it. Bad part was I showed up at lunch break, one of the mechanics on lunch break had pity on me and got me the bolt after I told him I had been all over the state looking for one and would rather not wait another hour just to buy one.LOL

 

Ha ha. True!

 

Ok now if you are using a metric fastener, is it tightened to ft-lbs, or are we going to meter-kilograms. And why do metric sockets have a 1/4, 3/8, or 1/2" drive, shouldn't they have a metric drive? Too confusing.

 

Newton-meter, yes

Ft-lb is distance times a force, same as a meter-newton (same thing was newton-meter).

The drive fact is confusing though, never thought about that...

 

I don't think I've used any standard wrenches or sockets on my silverados?

 

The main caps holding the carrier bearing on are 5/8s, and the pinion nut is 1 1/4

Cant think of any others...

 

ive used a 7/16ths for removal of the driveshaft, and an 11 a diff time lol.

Ive always used a 15mm for the carrier barrier.

 

if you look on practically anything on your truck you will also noticed itll probably say made in canada on it, hence being metric, i know thats the way it is on both my trucks

 

They carry metric bolts and nuts at the home depot here