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Brake job from the absolute deepest pits of hell. LONG Posted by B Millar [Email]  (#1109)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from B Millar) on Sun, 5 Jun 2011 19:55:13
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So. I started with the passenger side. That went fine. I've done this before. In and out in an hour. No issues.
Then came the driver side.
Take off the wheel, shoot everything with a healthy dose of PB Blaster... Let it soak in while I move all my tools to this side of the car. Grab my 5mm Allen key to remove the set screw from the rotor... "BADDINGGG!!!" The hex hole rounds out. Pretty sweet, huh? My landlord is around do I grab his drill, and the neighbor lets me use his Snap-On ($$$) easy-out set. I drill into the set screw, then reverse the easy-out into it... SNAPP!!! The easy-out sheers off in there. So now I've got a chunk of hardened steel in that friggin' set screw. I ran to Sears for the second time today, got $60 worth of various bolt-removing tools. None of which worked. Last ditch effort I tried JB Welding an Allen key in there. HAHAHAHA!! Long story short my neighbor come back seeing me in agony and hooks me up with his carbide-tipped air-power grinder. I haul out the air compressor, hook this sucker up and go to town on the rotor around the set screw. Grind the ever-loving poo out of it.
Okay, that's done. So I take the guide pins out, get the caliper carrier off. And start banging on the rotor to unseize it from the hub. HA!!! This thing was rusted on there like I have never seen before. By now I've got four gallons of PB Blaster on it. Beating the sh*t out of it with my steel sledge hammer. Okay, better go get the AXE. Use the back of the axe... nothing. Back to neighbor's, get BIG-ASS gear puller. It popped off with a BANG taking a big chunk of rotor with it. Not budging from the hub. So then comes more PB, and the axe again. THE ROTOR BROKE IN TWO. So we try cutting through the loose piece of rotor with the dremel thing. The CARBIDE TIP BROKE. At this point I say EFF IT and I'm calling a tow in the morning. (It's not even my car! Doing a friend a favor. He'll pay for it).
I invited my poor friend Luke to dinner with me tonight. He arrived about in time for the gear puller. He got sucked into this whole mess; didn't get to go out for dinner. So we give up, start cleaning up. I ran in and found a flat crow bar just for sh*ts and giggles and started prying a bit. Luke took it and actually got the piece stuck to the hub to BUDGE!!! The PB was finally (yeah, like THREE HOURS) doing it's job.
So that's that. The rest is just a brake job, but I have to mention that when I compressed the the driver side piston... the brake fluid reservoir overflowed all over the place. Awesome. Check out the picture below of what the rotor looked like after all this, and the link for some more of the sh*t show.
Thanks for listening. I'm drinking heavily tonight. :)
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