I hate when Murphy's law decides to show up.

 

yeah me to... it showed up and wouldnt leave me alone...got up at 7... rotors came off without a problem... went to get them turned... Shop #1 didnt have a big enough die to hold em... Shop #2.. Closed on weekends (and they handle big rigs too)... Shop #3 their lathe broke this week and are waiting for parts... Shop #4 no longer turns rotors because they had to many problems with them... shop #5 has the new style lathe that cant grab large rotors... but the guy there after looking at them said he wouldnt recomend turning them anyways... because they woulda been too thin afterwards with as deep as the cuts were in the rotors...

then had to deliver the bad news to my neighbor that the rotors could not only not be turned... but that hed have to buy new ones... we got back and went back to doing the brake job... rotors went on fine... but discovered a new problem... on one of the caliper mounting brackets the floating pins were frozen in place... so i couldnt get the caliper back on with the new pads...

i probably spent about an hr trying to get that pin unfrozen.. i beat on it with a giant hammer... heated it and beat some more... let it sit with WD40 on it with no result... stuck it in my 20 ton press... even that couldnt budge it, so went back to the heat and beat method... after seeing all the trouble i was going through to try and keep him from having to go to the store again!! he said hed just buy a new bracket...

while he was gone i went back to put his truck back together by finishing the other side... only to discover that while messing with the first side id apparently ran out of Brake parts cleaner... so had to call and catch the neighbor to see if he could bring back a couple more as well...

when he did get back he didnt just get the bracket... he got the whole assembly with caliper and all new hardware... got that on and bled the system... which finally everything started cooperating and got it back together...

i REALLY!!! hate murphys law...

 

That sucks Shawn. My moms taurus was the same way when me and my brother did rear shoes on it. The drums wouldnt come off at all. We backed the shoes all the way in and they wouldnt budge. Took us 45 minutes on each side with 2 sledge hammers and 2 pry bars to get teh old drums off. Once we did that it went back together easy.

 

have had that problem before... after youve back them off you can just smack the face between the studs and itll pop loose... if it catches on the way off twisting while pulling helps... but then theres those ones that are just impossibly stubborn...

i learned a trick one day with a RWD vehicle... came up with the idea while the tires and lugnuts loose to take it up to like 45mph and just stomp on the brakes while the others lightly on the gas... sometimes itll get frozen to the hub and the sudden shock from the brakes grabbing the drum can break it loose from the hub... downside to it is that it can damage the studs if theyre brittle...

 

We tried alot of thimgs that day Shawn. We ended up just beating on them until they finally popped off. I came close to just breaking out the sawzall to cut the drums off.

 

yup... beatings about the only thing that ever does work with drums... dunno why but it does...

 

That it does Shawn. We told my mom the next time it needed rear brakes to take it to the shop. She traded it in earlier this yr. SHe went to the dark side. She bought a dodge durango.

 

nahh she went to the grey side... after all she coulda bought a chebby... or a honda...

 

Thats true Shawn. But Im glad I didnt have to do rear brakes on it again.

 

Evening Shaun, Shawn and Charlie.

 

Afternoon NEil.

 

Afternoon Shaun, looks quiet in here tonight.

 

Yeah it has been pretty quiet in here today Neil. I figure everyone was out enjoying the nice weather today.

 

That may very well be the case.

 

Yeah it was a rather sunny day here Neil.