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Author Topic: Just have to say...WTF...  (Read 3648 times)

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Offline HD

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I went to do a brake job on the truck today cause they were making a little noise....here is how it played out....

I bought the pads on line for store pickup at the local Napa...I went to town, payed and picked them up. I proceeded to remove the wheels....(who ever tightened the lugs last, stiff armed them) I broke the wrench cause I had to add a 5 foot bar....Back to town I went for an adapter to go from a 1/2 drive to 3/4....I got the tire off, then worked on the caliper... looked at the pads, and they were wrong (assuming they were for the front, not the rear) so.
..back to town I went.... got the correct ones...and the rest is history.....
What should have been a 1/2 hour break job...took me 6 hours  :doah:  :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
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Good to get er done.   :happy1:

Offline glenn57

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Did you use a few of those phrases in the boat noise thread.  :scratch: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

There's a reason I pay others to do that stuff. :happy1:
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Did you use a few of those phrases in the boat noise thread.  :scratch: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

There's a reason I pay others to do that stuff. :happy1:

Yes....yes, I did.....I wasn't happy... Thank God for HH...
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I think they torque the hell out of them to avoid liability should they come off.  Any time I have tires changed or worked on first thing I do is loosen and retorque the nuts so I know I will be able to get them off if I have a flat.  Last fall I couldn't get the nuts loose with and impact set to well over 100 pounds.  Scheesh.
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Yup that why I pay a shop to do the work.
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one thing i have done for many years...anytime i take a nut or bolt out it ALWAYS gets anti-sieze on them......i dont regret it one bit!!!!!!
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Got an old school tire wrench that is X shaped, had it forever. Some shops actually torque 'em to specs down home & then tell you to check them after 25-30 miles. Even found 1 or 2 that I nudged a little after my last rotation. :happy1:
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one thing i have done for many years...anytime i take a nut or bolt out it ALWAYS gets anti-sieze on them......i dont regret it one bit!!!!!!
It goes on my lugs too, if I do it myself. Always get some on me too! :scratch: :bonk: That stuff doesn't come off very easy :rolleyes:, we have a couple bottles of it up here too.
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Yup I put anti-sieze  on before putting it back together. I drove it to Rush City and back this morning and then rechecked the torque, they were still tight.
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