[Karl Bebout]

The caliper bolt situation is certainly crap if there have been numerous occasions of the problem. I have done many many dozens of brake jobs, in a previous life, and never used lock tite on the caliper bolts. Never heard of a problem, but maybe I was just that lucky, or maybe its a situation with the type of brakes on an SPF. Don't know. Looking at the picture of the tranny pan, I notice that where the pan and tranny body meet is right in line and level with the cross member, so I don't think the tranny is cockeyed. I don't know what tranny is in the car. I've never seen anything like that, but I'd have to think it is kosher, for what ever type tranny it is, hemoroid and all.