John Frampton and I took the 'safe' route today and jacked up the cars to
see if something had shaken loose. I really, really don't want to lose any
more parts on the way to Solvang this year!
Anyways, while under the front end of mine, I noticed that one of the bolts
that attach the inboard brake cylinder was loose. Well, if an inboard one
was loose...so we took off the driver's side wheel and checked the outboard
bolts. Everything looked tight so we put the wheel back on.
That's when the fun started.
One of the wheel studs twisted off. Had to hunt down a new stud. Pep Boys,
by the way, has a very large selection of studs and lug nuts. We found one
that would do with a little modification. An interesting sidelight to wheel
studs on the front end. You have to separate the wheel center from the rotor
to replace a stud! Whacking and tapping and cursing did the trick and we got
my car back together. I even had time to adjust the e-brake.
Then we raised the front end on Jon's car. Right away we saw a pool of brake
fluid forming on the passenger's side wheel. Turns out it was a leaky brake
cylinder! We had just gone over to the store in this car, so that was a
little unnerving. We pulled the caliper assembly and found that the brake
shoes were gone as well, so a trip across the parking lot to Jon's donor car
and on went another caliper. So. If the right side was acting up...turns out
the left side front brake was wonky, too. Pulled the other donor caliper and
on she went.
So now my wheel will stay on and Jon will be able to stop when he wants to.
All in all, better than finding nothing and shedding more hardware on the
101 this year.
See ya at Solvang!
Paul Bauman
Westminster, CA
67 1600
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