This weekend me and eric did his brake pads, rotors, and rear calipers.
On friday afternoon we started with the rears. And just a little background.... Eric hates wrenching on cars but I love it so i do most of the labor and he does a lot of supervising and getting tools. The first caliper comes off and it turns out that 1 of the pistons is siezed on the bracket. It was already after 6 so the only auto places open were autozone and pepboys and they don't sell the bracket seperate. Then we take the other rear caliper off and it turns out a piston on the other bracket is also frozen. WTF. On sat morning I call acura and a few other places. Not even the freaking dealership can get us the bracket. So now i need to find a resealing kit. The closest one was a good 30 mins away. Eric doesn't have a car so he needs to find a ride to my work (which happens to be a repair shop) He takes my car get the reseal kit and then comes back to my shop and the guys were nice enough to heat the bracket up, get the piston free and reseal everything.
When we get home from work I put the passenger side caliper on and crossthread one of the freaking bolts that goes into to the bracket. OOOOPS. Then we put the other side on and test the e-brake. The spring is moving things seem fine. We do the front pads and rotors no problems. Go to try and to bleed the brakes and notice that the e-brake isn't holding the driverside. Turns out the Caliper is faulty. It was already like midnight on saturday So i get up at 9 this morning and call autozone (they now know me as the Girl who's BF drives a GSR). They say they have another one in another store and will have someone go pick it up. I take the caliper off (while eric is sleeping) we get to the store and its the wrong freaking side. We then have to drive to the other autozone and get the correct caliper. At this point i'm just like honestly what else can go wrong. We put that one on and its working fine. We test drive the car and there is a squeaking noise. at this point i don't care and eric can drive the car like that. lol. Turns out the front lug nuts were still loose. I watched eric tighten them all just before taking the test drive but they stll came loose.
So who else has shit luck like this when working on cars? We could have had this done in 2 hours if it wasn't for all this stupid shit happening and people not having the parts we need.
On friday afternoon we started with the rears. And just a little background.... Eric hates wrenching on cars but I love it so i do most of the labor and he does a lot of supervising and getting tools. The first caliper comes off and it turns out that 1 of the pistons is siezed on the bracket. It was already after 6 so the only auto places open were autozone and pepboys and they don't sell the bracket seperate. Then we take the other rear caliper off and it turns out a piston on the other bracket is also frozen. WTF. On sat morning I call acura and a few other places. Not even the freaking dealership can get us the bracket. So now i need to find a resealing kit. The closest one was a good 30 mins away. Eric doesn't have a car so he needs to find a ride to my work (which happens to be a repair shop) He takes my car get the reseal kit and then comes back to my shop and the guys were nice enough to heat the bracket up, get the piston free and reseal everything.
When we get home from work I put the passenger side caliper on and crossthread one of the freaking bolts that goes into to the bracket. OOOOPS. Then we put the other side on and test the e-brake. The spring is moving things seem fine. We do the front pads and rotors no problems. Go to try and to bleed the brakes and notice that the e-brake isn't holding the driverside. Turns out the Caliper is faulty. It was already like midnight on saturday So i get up at 9 this morning and call autozone (they now know me as the Girl who's BF drives a GSR). They say they have another one in another store and will have someone go pick it up. I take the caliper off (while eric is sleeping) we get to the store and its the wrong freaking side. We then have to drive to the other autozone and get the correct caliper. At this point i'm just like honestly what else can go wrong. We put that one on and its working fine. We test drive the car and there is a squeaking noise. at this point i don't care and eric can drive the car like that. lol. Turns out the front lug nuts were still loose. I watched eric tighten them all just before taking the test drive but they stll came loose.
So who else has shit luck like this when working on cars? We could have had this done in 2 hours if it wasn't for all this stupid shit happening and people not having the parts we need.
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