Recent content by TheRealDavid

@khryslerkid It's a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere I I'm 30 minutes outside of Fresno, CA So I ran out of time. I have to have this done by tomorrow. Going to be out of the country for 2 months. Yesterday I called a mechanic guy that my family recommended, mistake. He also tried hammering and heat...

This guy gets it pretty much. Metal will need to be cut. There is a special hole saw meant for this, $75. I only found one available on ebay. Swedge Swadge Swage seem to be common spelling for this. Adding these spellings here for anyone looking for answers in the future. I'll continue to...

yeah adjuster is off, the drums spins freely. I'll look into removing the spindle nut or a hole saw. I got some bad advice and hammered the outside of the drum which bent it and slightly cracked so that one is toast which sucks cause it's original don't know if it still had some life left in it.

So my passenger side front brake drum is on there like Excalibur. Left one came off with a bit of hammering, not too bad. Heat, gear jaw puller, hammer time and plenty of it. It does look to be the original drum, its still has the red paint and long sound dampening spring that goes around the...

I think it was called Jimmy Picnic. I went a couple years ago, weed and tatts yes, not so many funky hair color people. Why take time to color your hair when you could be shopping for an old car or scraping rust off an old car lol.

Come celebrate an annual San Francisco classic car tradition in beautiful Golden Gate Park. https://www.sfcarpicnic.com/ Cars & Trucks $40 Motorcycles $20 Bicycles $10 Spectators FREE 1999 or older year limit for vehicles. No vehicles larger than 3/4 ton pickup. No other vehicles allowed on...

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Yeah man, I had to walk away and come back too cause I was losing my cool and that just leads to more problems. I don't know if I could have done it without the ratcheting wrenches while the column and the seat still in place. I'm a big dude. What kinda car you working on? I've never...

You're replacing the brake light switch? I have a column shifter as well. Yeah it essentially took a lot of patience for me to get it done and a few bruises and scratches on my back. The ratcheting wrenches helped a ton. Like people mentioned in the previous comments, you may also want to...

@Longknife holy molé that is exactly what is happening with mine. shaking my head.

So I ended up using the piston from the new master and swapping that into the old master. I cleaned up the old master, didn't notice any pitting, I didn't remove the old piston that is deeper into the cylinder unfortunately, but even the old piston didn't seem into rough of a shape. I think...

Well then I'm starting to think that I have the wrong master.

@Cranky I'm up to shenanigans already by doing this work myself instead of throwing money at a professional so I guess I can buy a thread gauge. Are 9/16-20 and 9/16-18 close enough that it would almost fit? Was looking at this thing to better my brain...

Yes I still have it... hmm how do I measure the thread?

So a few months ago I bought a brake master cylinder at O'Reilly's I'm starting to wonder whether I bought the wrong one. Or maybe defective? Issue: Flare nut doesn't seem to lock correctly, I have reset it several times and it always leaks, it seems pretty well aligned. The flare nut closest...