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A1 CARDONE reman CALIPER UPDATE: My 1995 NA had 7mm bleeder valve bolts. The A1's came with 10mm bleeder valve bolts. I had purchased 3SX's speed bleeders before I started all this and I had to send them back for a swap out. No biggie, but something to note for others ordering from RockAuto.com.
CONSUMER PRICING UPDATE: I ordered all my calipers from RockAuto.com and they are A1 Cardone's with a lifetime warranty (one which I bet they believe no one will ever use or rarely use). However one of the rear calipers came with a wrong sleeve bushing and I had to send it back leaving me to go (at RockAuto's direction) to Autozone to get a new one through a special order or RockAuto wouldn't honor the warranty on that caliper for not using a new sleeve bushing over the rear slider bolt. I also had to repack 3 boxes and ship them back to 3 different RockAuto shipping centers, with 3 different packing slips, and 3 different TO: labels for the core charges. Sooooo what I'm getting at is after all that mess, extra time, going to the post office, getting a sleeve due to the wrong one sent, etc... it would've been way more worth it to go to Autozone or Advance Auto because in the end the $$$ were nearly exactly the same yet up front online it looked like I was saving a bundle, except with the ordering stuff I was out my time and effort that I could've been spending on the car instead. Autozone has a LLT on certain parts, but honestly I'm not really worried about a lifetime warranty on a caliper. Only other thing to note is that RockAuto charged less of a core charge than Autozone does for these particular parts.
CALIPER PREVENTATIVE WEAR & MAINTENANCE IDEA I am still going to seal all the entry points on the calipers to protect from air, water, dirt, etc.. with high temp blue rtv silicone sealant. This includes the rims of the metal caps at the ends of where the slider bolts go in and out of the rear calipers, side of edges of the pistons where piston meets the piston boot on all calipers, the edges of the slider bolt rubber boots on all calipers, and around the edges of where the bolt heads meet up with the caliper holes. I say all this because even though I hope the new A1's have fixed slight design flaws in case they haven't I did notice water deposits on the rear slider bolts, of course lots of dirt around the pistons, and lots of gunk funk mixed with the grease in the slider bolt holes. It wasn't even like grease anymore, it was like a more loosey silly putty needless to say doesn't help the caliper spread out when it should which is probably very much the reason why I always used to hear scraping sounds from underneath when idling through parking lots. I realize after all this that ultimately what will keep the braking system from getting funked again is a flushing of the lines maybe every 10 to 20k depending on how anal you are.