Sitting at the mechanic's waiting on my brakes and watching Top Gear. What a fun show that I never gave the time of day before.
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12wait, you're not doing them yourself?
I should prolly learn. I've poked around under hoods, but never ventured to wheels or undercarriage.
note: this is also a great time to check your wheel bolts (the thing that holds the wheels and is secured by lug nuts) to see if the threads haven't been chewed up by retards cross-threading or over-torqueing them at the tire shop with the impact gun. replace those if they've been fucked up. also, always hand tighten your wheels back on in a star pattern before tightening them to spec making sur nothing is cross-threaded or asymmetrically aligned because that will also fuck up your bolts and lead to very rough and dangerous ride.
another note: make sure you install your rotors on the right side. most rotors have an "L" and "R" so that way the cooling fins can circulate incoming air properly and cool the rotors to prevent rotor warp which leads to rough braking.
do not EVER use loctite on lug nuts you retard. if I had to replace brakes behind you and you used that I would strangle you to death with your own hands. you tighten them to torque spec and re-torque them after 100 miles. don't use a mallet unless you are expecting to reuse the drum or disc or you will be there for a century. use the heaviest ball peen you got nigger don't be shy
i watched the chris fix video saying to use loctite like 10 years ago and i'm so glad the guy at autozone told me not to.
oh, and not on lug nuts, just the brake assembly ones.
i just torque mine to spec and everything is ok because i don't need a bunch of assurance just to then have to use a torch to get them off
Just crossthread them instead so you don't lose your lugnuts on the freeway when the loctite gets hot
Good morning you stupid nigger
Pookiebear! G'mornyan~~!
Did you sleep well
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8Yes I did actually I was tired from doing shit all day and it started raining so I talked to my favourite person while laying out on the balcony in the rain and I fell asleep until the thunder started again at 4am. And you?
Fuck that sounds COZY, I crashed at like 1 and got up at 5 for work. I always sleep through the storms ๐ญ
i miss sleeping through those epic snowstorms we had this winter
It was freaky, I was hearing thunder and the snow was muffling it. Some kind of cosmic horror shit
Those ones are the best because when you see the lightning it lights up the sky for miles because of the cloud cover and the dry air
Oh fuck yeah, kinda miss winter. Spring is too muddy for me
this spring got too warm too fast. either give us a mild spring-like winter like between 2019 and 2024 or don't let summer start too fast.
We got freezing to mild (50-60s) overnight with rainfall so there's been a lot of localized flooding going on here. Glad I live on the top of a big ass hill ngl