Thread: What did you do to your Car today?

Originally Posted by TLSheff

Most people on here have done that... the question is. Can you get it back out of it???

There was one guy on here a while back, talking about the cheap GP he pickedup, figured it up after the trade and some odd variables he spend like $14.00 lol
I will have to go look for this, unless someone else remembers it.

Dont know if i can get it back out or not, i plan to drive it till it dies anyway. It runs awesome now. And dont know if someone would like what i have done to it.

Originally Posted by heavydtheogre

And dont know if someone would like what i have done to it.

Most likely not...

Originally Posted by sdavis11b

Scrape my stupid plastic piece under my front bumper going in and out of these stupid driveways in Los Angeles. I dont know how lowered cars survive here, Im loosing my mind just driving out of the supermarket parkinglot.

SE Front Lip, HELL NO!

you need to traverse them driveway aprons, like on a good angle, and S...L...O...W......

how ya like LA? i couldn't wait to get back home, that place is crazy. only cool part was Venice beach, and the food was good. if you like fake boobs thats the place to be as well lol

Picked up car from body shop. Nice new blended trunk lid. Mmm. And they fixed the water leak!

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Today.. well lets see today SUCKED for the car.

started by changing the brakes, first time ever doing it.. so of course i noobed all over it lol

couldn't figure out how to get the bracket off the calliper, well i figured it out after much cursing and help from GPF.

got new rotors on, but the pads wouldn't fit.. too narrow.. well i had no idea how to get the piston back in. everything i was doing wouldn't work.
box instructions said i could crack the bleeder screw to relieve pressure.. no dice. finally got it going in by using 2 small clamps and an old pad lol

got the fronts all buttoned up. Now I've gotta bleed the system.. checked about just taking it in to be done, $100.. EFF THAT.

so i read up on 1 man bleeding procedures.. started by jacking car back up, took drivers rear wheel off.. went to loosen bleeder screw.. it sheared right off. clean flush off..
back to GPF..
thankfully its not leaking.. but who knows for how long..
I opened the door to check something, saw that somehow with my key sitting on the pull lock, i tore the door panel.

FUUUUUUUUU

so I ask around to my buddy.. he's got 05 callipers, so I'm gonna pick them up sat. and throw em on, with HELP this time lol
and i can get a new door panel easy too.. so its all working out, but HOLY CRAP what a stressful day.

that ws my day with my car.. /Rant

holy crap, sorry to hear you had that much trouble, i do brakes in my sleep these days, and cant imagine that ever happening to me lol

C clamp, and the old pad, open the master cylinder cap, and crank the C clamp closed on the piston till its about flush.

you can just take them off in one shot by taking off the caliper bracket with the caliper still on it, but it makes working on it easier if you take the caliper off first, then the caliper bracket to get the rotor off.

oh and taking the caliper bolts off when the caliper bracket is not bolted on is no fun at all. you want the bolts out so you can grease them up real good.

yeah, just wasn't my day today

I put shorty mufflers on my motorcycle

Drove to Huntsville and ate with the girlfriend. Front end vibration is getting worse ... and I just got some money built up. Knowing my luck it will be something expensive

What a noob!

Originally Posted by Mad Monkey

Today.. well lets see today SUCKED for the car.

started by changing the brakes, first time ever doing it.. so of course i noobed all over it lol

couldn't figure out how to get the bracket off the calliper, well i figured it out after much cursing and help from GPF.

got new rotors on, but the pads wouldn't fit.. too narrow.. well i had no idea how to get the piston back in. everything i was doing wouldn't work.
box instructions said i could crack the bleeder screw to relieve pressure.. no dice. finally got it going in by using 2 small clamps and an old pad lol

got the fronts all buttoned up. Now I've gotta bleed the system.. checked about just taking it in to be done, $100.. EFF THAT.

so i read up on 1 man bleeding procedures.. started by jacking car back up, took drivers rear wheel off.. went to loosen bleeder screw.. it sheared right off. clean flush off..
back to GPF..
thankfully its not leaking.. but who knows for how long..
I opened the door to check something, saw that somehow with my key sitting on the pull lock, i tore the door panel.

FUUUUUUUUU

so I ask around to my buddy.. he's got 05 callipers, so I'm gonna pick them up sat. and throw em on, with HELP this time lol
and i can get a new door panel easy too.. so its all working out, but HOLY CRAP what a stressful day.

that ws my day with my car.. /Rant

Rotated my tires, cleaned the crap out of the inside of my rims, and painted the calipers

I watched it get drenched in a thunderstorm, then drove it to dinner, and back home. I'm so proud of her lately

And today I have ordered it some LED lighting for the interior

Monkey... so fail.

I can say that because I have been there. First time is always a pain. But helpful advice, go to your local parts store and spend the few bucks for one of these. Brake Caliper Compression Tool.

Should look something like this

May or May Not have a hand grip, some of the better ones have a socket end for a ratchet or wrench, but by hand works for me.
^^^ Same as the one I have personally.

Works like

I usually just put the old pad on the cylinder and the tool to it and crank away. With the valve open or with the cap off on the master cylinder so it can press down. Makes it much easier when your by yourself. Bleeding is a whole different process tho by yourself, doable, just harder.

Originally Posted by Joshmoshh

Drove out of town.. a guy was slow as hell in front of me so I cut to the other lane real quick (it was a one way) and popped in front of him, he wrote down my license plate number, nothing happened . lol

You shouldn't stunt in a slow car.

ProTip - Have front of car jack up and swing the wheel to the side you are working on so the caliper is facing out, then stick a big screw driver in there and pry against the rotor and pad and BOOM the piston goes back into the caliper, no tools needed ever. Rear brakes are different though most of the time.

thanks Cam

i for sure have a better understanding on how to do it.. for next time

I use big C-clamp to compress the piston.