Nice! </Sarcasm>
Glad you and your are here to relate the tale. Another reason why I
prefer to do stuff like brakes myself. I thought I was getting to old
for this stuff too, but decided I can't afford the alternatives.
So, I bought a dewalt battry op rattle wrench. The first job I applied
it to, taking wheels off a junk car, completely overwhelmed it. But it
turned out that with me standing on the 18" breaker bar, and jumping on
the breaker bar would not work either. I did get 10 of the bolts loose
by beating on the handle of the breaker bar with a 2 lb LFH as hard as I
could. About 20 to 40 whacks with this "impact wrench" would break
loose a lug bolt. Well over 300 Ft Lb. It woulda stripped any rice
burner lug nut. (or merkun) However with several other jobs since then
where bolts are near the torque spec, the thing works a charm. I love
it. It works better than any of the air rattle renches I have had, and
is no where near as temperamental. (and does not require oil in the
air hose end.
Fred Moir via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
September 1, 2016 at 8:49 PM
Had an interesting morning on tuesday.
Tuesday is take-my-granddaughter-to-breakfast day and we were in
traffic, going by the rehab hospital when the traffic stopped for a
red light.
Why are we not slowing down, SH*T no brakes! Managed to avoid the car
in front by swerving into the gutter and stomping on the (Bloody
Awkward) emergency brake and stopped. Whew.
With almost no brake fluid and only minimal rear braking, crept to
NAPA for juice and slowly down the street to breakfast. Crept home again.
The people that I normally use to do the repairs that I don't want to
do recently replaced the passenger caliper, both disks and pads in the
front.
It appears that the mechanic (moron) who replaced the caliper,
unscrewed the unit from the hose and re-threaded the new caliper onto
the old hose.
Then twisted the caliper to fit against the mounting lugs. This left a
curl in the hose that rubbed against the tyre, and, e viola, no
F******G brakes!
They will get a present of the hose from me as a learning aid. New
hoses installed by Fred.
I got hosed, even though it was suggested that a new pair of hoses
would be a good idea.
I'm getting too old for this sh*t.
Fred Moir.
Lynn MA.
Diesel preferred.
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