… anything at all on the wall today.<\/p>\n
At about 09:30 while I was working on my website Liz rang to say that the brake parts had come for her car. <\/p>\n
So after working on the website until lunchtime I made myself a few butties and then had lunch in Caliburn on the way down the road.<\/p>\n
Of course, when there is a choice of 4 or 5 types of rear brake shoe it’s easy to choose the wrong one, isn’t it? That’s what we found out after we had dismantled one side of the car. <\/p>\n
But at least it gave us an opportunity to look at how it all worked and to give it all a really good clean.<\/p>\n
The front brakes were another matter. We had the right disc pads and after the retaining pins had been freed off, we set to work. Or at least, we tried to. The outer right-hand pad was seized in the caliper and looked for all the world as if it had never been used. <\/p>\n
That took quite some freeing off but eventually I managed. <\/p>\n
Then after spending a while freeing off the piston and cleaning everything off, a little copper grease lubricated everything and it re-assembled quite nicely.<\/p>\n
As for the left-hand side, I removed the retaining pins, and as soon as I did that, the friction lining off the outer pad fell off the car, leaving the backing plate behind. <\/p>\n
No wonder the car was making strange noises and doing weird things when Liz applied the brakes.<\/p>\n
All of that needed a really good clean and the piston in the caliper freeing off, and then it all went back together quite easily<\/p>\n
Anyway, now it all works fine, stops like it’s supposed to, and all the strange noises have gone. I’m glad I did all that.<\/p>\n
Liz cooked a nice tea and made me some spicy tomato chutney to bring home as a reward. That was really nice.<\/p>\n
But seeing what passes for garage mechanics around here, I can see me turning the clock back to where I was in the late 1980s. <\/p>\n
What I need first of all is a little workshop. <\/p>\n
I shall have to do something about that. I may well be on to something here.\u00a0<\/p>\n
