Brakes
I love working on cars. I really do. Something about taking apart and putting together mechanical things and making them work, especially when they didn’t work before is very rewarding to me.
I’ve had to do a number of repairs on cars over the past few weeks. These haven’t been all that enjoyable. I’ve had failures on cars when I’ve had to have them working post haste and ran into troubles with the job being bigger than I first imagined it or just things being harder to get to with the tools that I have at my disposal.
Today I had planned to do a brake job on one car followed by another brake job on another one in a couple of weeks. I ended up needing to do both today. Only one got done. I was figuring on brake pads and rotors but I ended up replacing the calipers also. Nothing came off easy. I ended up having to hose everything down with liquid wrench and then just walk away for half an hour to break loose the caliper bolts. I also took four trips to three different auto parts stores to get all the parts.
The other car will get its brakes replaced tomorrow night. I’m looking right now at what I can do with my garage and tools to make these jobs a little easier in the future. I’m just not having fun working on cars under current circumstances.
General | Larry D. Burton | 29 June 2008 |
By Dan Lyke, 7/2/2008 @ 4:16 pm
Ugh. I enjoy projects where I don’t have to break in the middle to go shopping. I hate that moment of “I need one $.79 part to continue”, and I doubly hate when I miss two of those and have to go out multiple times a day.