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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I should prolly learn. I've poked around under hoods, but never ventured to wheels or undercarriage.
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not that hard. there's people that don't know shit about what's under the hood of their car that can change brake pads and rotors easily provided the rotor itself isn't rust welded to the wheel hub. all you really need is a jack, jack stands, wheel chocks so the car doesn't slide back when jacked or on the stands, a breakers bar, the right sockets, a mallet to break off the rust between the bake pads and rotor - or if that doesn't work, a gear puller that you can rent from the auto parts store for a deposit fee, the right clamp and a small plank of wood to depress the brake caliper piston carefully (watch a video on it), and a torque wrench so you can properly torque your bolts when your done to spec so nothing falls off or the threads don't get screwed up due to over-torqueing (chris-fix recommends using loctite threadlocker but there's people that say the bolts will be a bitch to remove without heat if you do that). just make sure to be careful with the brake lines because you can screw them up easily and don't leave your break calipers hanging unsupported. if there are two shitty philips head screws securing your rotor and they won't come off, just drill them out because the factory puts them on and they're totally unnecessary - just a sign that the rotors were never changed since the car was new. also, when you're done and you lower the car down, just be sure to pump the brake pedals to get the brake caliper piston in place to apply pressure between the pads and the rotor ,it will feel spongey at first on the brake pedal before it feels firm so have the parking brake engaged until then. also, don't forget to remove the protective anti-rust oil from the new rotors with brake clean before you install them or otherwise you won't have the necessary friction to stop.
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.
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.
@graf did i miss anything?
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
"You're gonna love my nuts" - Parker Offer (Vince Banks)
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.
NO. do not EVER use loctite on any brake component or any component that has a finite use life
Yea. Don’t forget to get a bottle of anti-seize for the rotors to come off easy for the next guy and lube up the pin rods for ease of sliding when the brakes are applied.
oh yeah, forgot about the pin rods. a lot of the new rotors also have coatings between where they mount up to the wheel hub to prevent rust-welding and allow for easy removal. gear pullers are great for removing ones that are already rust-welded.
I had to make a tool out of threaded rod and 1 1/2" thick steel plating to get the hub off an ex girlfriends hyndai accent because she drove it around for a year with an absolutely fucking mangled wheel bearing. I will never do that again for any reason. It took like an hour of hammering back and forth with heat to break it free
Brakes and oil changes are by far the easiest maintenance on a car. Thousands of videos out there to learn and harbor freight tools are dirt cheap. Plus, the peace of mind (for the most part) knowing that it was done by your hand and done right instead of by Whiskey Pete at Jiffy Lube.
just don't do like how chris-fix says and use loctite threadlocker. it's too bad the dislike button no longer works so people can't drag him for that one.
Somebody will find his house and kill him some day. Maybe not today, maybe in 50-60k miles
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
Yes 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 😭
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
one day this asswipe is gonna ugga his last dugga
Those screws are easy to tap out or easy out and lube shops have easy outs now. You can do so much worse so you can tell without seeing the melanated hands who was behind it
"it's not that hard"
>nine million words with a dozen provisos
>get it wrong and you plow into the back of somebody's acura
respecc to those what do it
but i know my limitations
(i sniff glue)
>nine million words with a dozen provisos
>get it wrong and you plow into the back of somebody's acura
respecc to those what do it
but i know my limitations
(i sniff glue)