teknics

EARLY PICTURES LINK FOR LAZY BUMS



Ok so me and mike (frestyle) went about doing a complete brake job on his canadian 90 t2. We swapped in new slotted rotors, new pads, and ss braided lines (for the moment front only, cause the rears are fubar).



Started off early friday, ran to home depot to get some 4mm silicone hose for bleeding brakes. Never talk to the employees at home depot they = teh clueless.



Got back started the disassembly on rear wheels, took offpads, calipers and rotors, then realized we needed flare nut wrenches. Didn't have those. Trip to sears, $35 later got a set of 5 flare nut wrenches. Went to work on everything.



For the most part after this it was fairly simple. We discovered his front passenger rotors holding screw's heads were spun off by previous owner, had to mold them to accept new rotors. On the driver's side front rotor one screw came out easy the other required me attaching an impact wrench, 90psi, and a screwdriver to spin it off.



So we're moving nicely now everything hooked up, just gotta put the passenger side lower hard brake line into the caliper.....trying.....trying....trying. why won't it tighten? let's look........ohhh lookie NO THREADS. the threads like jumped off the fitting. So we were fucked for the night. Spent all night thinking of who'd have the right fittings and lines after discovering no auto stores had them, and that Wayne Mazda = teh suxxy. Finally both me and mike's friend suggested a junkyard off 46, and vosko told us ito should have them. Call Ito at 9-ish before we leave to go to junkyard, he was gonna clal back. Call at 10:30, said he'd check his parts car and call back, about 12:00 we just figured hell we'll just use the junkyard parts. Show up with flare nut wrench in hand and go hunting. Found an S4 Vert, S4 GXL, and 2 SE's. Only the GXL and Vert have the 4 pot calipers as the S5 TII, of course it was hard to get them off but we did.



Get home install, prepare to bleed, buy mityvac, discover mityvac is shittyvac and bleed manually.



Done, or so we thought, test out, grinding on driver side. CHeck to see what it is... Caliper mounting bolt, missing washer, bottom of bolt grinding on rotors. Replace washer, bam everything works, go drift in school parking lot, got WOT towards 2 cops, then run and hide, then come home and clean.



Here's a link to where all the pics are:

http://niteshade.net/90t2brakes



also so everyone knows about 60% or so of this weekends posts by me, were by frestyle .



edit: the pics right now are huge, give em some time to load.



kevin.

teknics

new smaller pics uploaded, same link, labeled small.



kevin.

Leetheslacker

tek & fre = teh mad mechanix?

teknics

we worked through the freaking annoying *** rain as well, which was a bitch, especially at the junkyard.



all in all it was fun and works great.



kevin

FrestyleFC3S

hey im back...finally he let me free....



yea i cant really add more to the story besides having fun with SUVs..... his wrangler's BOV and scaring people.....drifing the durango, breaking his durango muffler, and then sounding like a crazy mustang all day, and then more drifting the durango



we ate 2 meals....wendy's and mcdonald's in that order..........and saw 2fast2furious friday night...



report from the ride home: .... breaks feel great....my fronts were semi-warped and the new rotors are nice and straight so it took a lot of my high speed shutter away....they brake quiker and just flat out ******* rock...



also i dunno why but my car feels better....i can kick the *** out more ..and i mean A LOT more....whatever it is , i like it....



for those who are wondering i got Rotora slotted rotors and Porterfield RS4 carbon/kevlar brakes and Corksporrt SS braided brake lines accompanied with Motul 6000 DOT4....



i would definitly recommend this setup, cept maybe DOT5?......rishie sold me this deal and i thank him for it....go get yourself a set

Seppuku

i work on my car in the rain and i have a mud driveway. It wasnt fun when i was doing the exhuast in the rain.

teknics

you need a better mental pic of the junkyard.



tire tread marks from the loaders are about a foot deep, and theyre everywhere. To go from the GXL to the vert we needed a rowboat but made due with our sneakers.



then to compound problems, both 4pot caliper cars had their pass. sides up against another piece of **** car making things that much tighter, and every jack w efound sucked so we couldnt flip or lift the car.



the junkyard was a tough sonofabitch.



kevin.

FrestyleFC3S

yea junkyard = teh annoyingness



it was a movie junkyard where you see cars on cars next to cars that have cars inside them which in turn has a car coming from under it....



it would have been a blast...but the ******* rain makes mud and the mud makes **** annoying....were going back soon to take a better look



there was a set of vert wheels without center caps...anyone want....im thinkin about going back and taking them (the good unbent ones) for myself

1Revvin7

I find this happens a lot, always allow more time for 1st time projects.

rmaiersg

what the hell does teh mean?