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Originally Posted by Dean
If you can't get the old part, do it, but otherwise, I'd ask Stoptech and then worst case grind the knuckle, not the bracket.
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Last time I needed one of those brackets from StopTech, I believe it cost me in the $300 range.
Considering it's impossible to get reman'd axles for '05+ STi's, meaning I had to spend like $600 on new axles (list price is like $420 *each*... thank god for Gaynell helping me out) instead of the $200 I was planning... I'm all about not spending any more money on this swap project. If I can't get the old style knuckles... I'm breaking out the grinder and spray paint.
On a side note... I've got one of my STi axles that's missing a pair of circlips... which means if you yank on it, you can totally disengage both of the CV joints. That was a nice thing to find out, you know, that I've been racing on that axle for years like that.
I'm just glad that it was the axle that *didn't* get yanked out of the tranny when my LCA went, or I'd have destroyed an axle as well as the LCA. Somehow that axle is fine.
I ordered the clips I need to rebuild the axle so the CVs aren't lose, but I'm not sure how to assemble that stuff... I hope special tools aren't necessary. I've never rebuilt an axle. I was just going to get a reman '04 to match, but even those aren't available yet.