I am installing replacement axles. I looked at my passenger side caliper and noticed the pins were sheared off at the mounting bracket. Seems very odd. The PO upgraded to bronze bushings. I did a brake job about 10,000 miles ago and made sure the pins were free of rust and greased them. Driver's side are still there. I need to either replace the bracket and the pins or just the pins if I can get the sheared ones out of the bracket without damaging something. Does anyone know if the stock pins are the same as (probably) Bavauto's upgrade ones?
Also, the new axles are slightly different than the old ones. The old ones have a cover on both sides that hide the inner CV joint guts. The old socket head cap screws are 50mm long under the shoulder and the new ones are 60mm. The new ones protrude through the flanges and hit on the casting where the wheel bearing resides, I will double check the overall length against the old one just to be sure. Is it typical to not have the inner cover come with new axles? Should I re-use the inner covers from the old axles? I'm checking realoem.com next to see if the inner covers are a separate part number.