OMG! I need some therapy and I know some of you have gone through this. Starts off as a small repair and ends up being a complete pita. This one may not be the best but it may drive me to drink lol
Friday, got my new strut rod bushings. Sweet, couple hour job to pull the LCAs, loosten some parts and done. Well, start on pass side get everything marked and unhooked and the frickin LCA bangs into my header before it clears. No way out. Plenty of extra threads on the strut rod so jam everything back in and hacksaw about 1" of threads off. Gives me just enough clearance to swap out bushings in the K frame housing. Still very tight.
LCA is hung by a wire to keep everything up and out of the way. In the process of wiggling it back in the wire pulls out and the whole shebang comes down and is stopped by the brake flex line.....fml. It didn't break or leak but I knew. Got the drivers side done no issues.
Test drive is good, everything tracks straight. Next day I'm driving it and now it has a slight pull to the right and when brakes are applied it pulls hard right...could it be the hose? Get back and the right side drum is much hotter than the right. So $10 later I have a new hose. 10 minute job including bleed. Love those speed bleeders! Get it buttoned up, bled and as I am tightening the bleeder with my mini 1/4" wrench.....snap.
F'n thin chinese sized bleeder snapped right off. Off comes the wheel and luckily I have a spare made in usa frt brake cylinder in my box. Go to put it on and one bolt just isn't going on. Pull it back out and......that's why it was in my parts box. Stripped bolt hole....sigh. tap it, cut another bolt down and get it all back together. I still need to test drive it so I may not be out of the woods yet.
Lets hear some good ones
Friday, got my new strut rod bushings. Sweet, couple hour job to pull the LCAs, loosten some parts and done. Well, start on pass side get everything marked and unhooked and the frickin LCA bangs into my header before it clears. No way out. Plenty of extra threads on the strut rod so jam everything back in and hacksaw about 1" of threads off. Gives me just enough clearance to swap out bushings in the K frame housing. Still very tight.
LCA is hung by a wire to keep everything up and out of the way. In the process of wiggling it back in the wire pulls out and the whole shebang comes down and is stopped by the brake flex line.....fml. It didn't break or leak but I knew. Got the drivers side done no issues.
Test drive is good, everything tracks straight. Next day I'm driving it and now it has a slight pull to the right and when brakes are applied it pulls hard right...could it be the hose? Get back and the right side drum is much hotter than the right. So $10 later I have a new hose. 10 minute job including bleed. Love those speed bleeders! Get it buttoned up, bled and as I am tightening the bleeder with my mini 1/4" wrench.....snap.
F'n thin chinese sized bleeder snapped right off. Off comes the wheel and luckily I have a spare made in usa frt brake cylinder in my box. Go to put it on and one bolt just isn't going on. Pull it back out and......that's why it was in my parts box. Stripped bolt hole....sigh. tap it, cut another bolt down and get it all back together. I still need to test drive it so I may not be out of the woods yet.
Lets hear some good ones