Brake calliper just fell off today

[RICK LAKE]

madmaxx Max you are way off base. If everytime a product was made with a nut or bolt and it broke, backed out, came loose, there would be no jobs, no product, no work, no future. Products are tested and while not being a SPF owner they work hard to improve there cars. Bolts and nuts are nothing like 25+ years ago with the materials they where made with, everything was higher graded and rated than today. Cheap material and maker just getting by today. Not every nut and bolt is made at ARP, if it was there would be another $1,000.00 dollars on your build. Vibration and heat cycles can cause anything to come loose over time. This is why checkup are needed every year. Once you nut and bolt a part together to a torque spec, depending on the grade of bolt and type of nut, there should be no added need to adjust or tighten them more if loc-tite or a sealer is used. Bolts need to stretch and retract from heat and cold. You keep over tighting these bolts and you are looking to have a failure of a fastener. We are not talking about head bolts, again check once to spec and leave them alone after first setting. As stated there are different temps for Loc-tite. Under normal driving these caliper bolts may reach 300-500f. Racing or hard driving 750-900f All my front end fasteners are loc-tite with hightemp red or safety wired. Is all this needed NO. I have nyloc on the rest of the car, again an added safety thing because of racing. Between wiring and nylocs, there was an extra $300 dollars splent on my car. Worth every penny and lets me worry about other things. I think it's good the SPF sent out info about a possible problem on there cars and how to fix it. If SPF knows where every car is and owner they could sent out e-mails about checking a part on the cars like the big 2 1/2 do with campaigns.
Every body on this forum wants there cobras to be safe, fast and fun to drive. A mistake happened and could have could a bad accident, it didn't. Spoooky is OK the car is repaired, a pair of underwear where lost. I hope that everyone that reads this thread and knows anyone with a SPF in the serial numbers for the repair above, tells there friends to chack and even replace the bolts with one ones and loc-tite. This really applys to ALL cobra owners about doing a safety check on their cars in the spring before driving them. Rick L.