You had a raver downtown and didn't invite us?
Good that you could laugh about it.I had Mrs. Firehawk help me bleed the brakes. She’s done it before and knows the process. After maybe 20 pumps there was still nothing at the caliper. I’m at the caliper thinking WTH I’ve never had this much trouble bleeding brakes. I walk back to the front and find Mrs. Firehawk pumping the accelerator.
“Uhhh… Honey…” we both had a good laugh for a while.
The funniest part while she was pumping the accelerator (car off) she called out “the pedal is getting harder, I think it’s working”
Used to be we would replace pads, turn rotors and rebuild the calipers.The brake job on the wife’s car that should have taken an hour yesterday ended up taking 6. I found both rear calipers were bad and had to replace. One of new calipers also ended up being bad (factory damaged piston seal). So I had to drive to another town to get it exchanged. Good to go now.
And lines to the caliper. Always replace the lines.Used to be we would replace pads, turn rotors and rebuild the calipers.
Time passed and then we replaced the pads and the rotors and maybe rebuilt to calipers.
Now (in my limited experience), it seems like pads, rotors AND calipers are consumables in light duty cars, etc.
Along these same lines......but worse...Used to be we would replace pads, turn rotors and rebuild the calipers.
Time passed and then we replaced the pads and the rotors and maybe rebuilt to calipers.
Now (in my limited experience), it seems like pads, rotors AND calipers are consumables in light duty cars, etc.
I’m just old enough to have turned rotors and drums at the first shop I worked at. I don’t know any place that does it now.Used to be we would replace pads, turn rotors and rebuild the calipers.
Time passed and then we replaced the pads and the rotors and maybe rebuilt calipers.
Now (in my limited experience), it seems like pads, rotors AND calipers are consumables in light duty cars, etc.
Along these same lines......but worse...
My refrigerator just texted me to replace its air filters.......
Back in the day rotors used to be these massive hunks of steel. You could mill off 1/8” at a time and still have plenty left. Now in efforts to reduce weight and cost they are only just thick enough to last 1 or maybe 2 sets of pads and there is not enough steel to turn the rotors (when I worked at a service station - not a gas station - all the pumps were full service, everyones oil got checked and windows were cleaned. We had a cash box for the money, sales tax was not included in the pump price so you had to have some math skills (had an argument from out of state folks more than once complaining I was scamming them) and we had these large flimsy books that would come weekly with lists of bad credit card numbers we had to check with every card transaction!)Used to be we would replace pads, turn rotors and rebuild the calipers.
Time passed and then we replaced the pads and the rotors and maybe rebuilt calipers.
Now (in my limited experience), it seems like pads, rotors AND calipers are consumables in light duty cars, etc.
7343 cubic yards poured out in under 11 hours.You had a raver downtown and didn't invite us?
That's like 75 trucks.7343 cubic yards poured out in under 11 hours.
Back in the day rotors used to be these massive hunks of steel. You could mill off 1/8” at a time and still have plenty left. Now in efforts to reduce weight and cost they are only just thick enough to last 1 or maybe 2 sets of pads and there is not enough steel to turn the rotors (when I worked at a service station - not a gas station - all the pumps were full service, everyones oil got checked and windows were cleaned. We had a cash box for the money, sales tax was not included in the pump price so you had to have some math skills (had an argument from out of state folks more than once complaining I was scamming them) and we had these large flimsy books that would come weekly with lists of bad credit card numbers we had to check with every card transaction!)
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