Next Years Power Tour Car

[kwhizz]

Youse East coast guyz got dis all figured out.......

[kwhizz]

This car stuff is getting hard......Since MCACN is over, basically our car season is finished till next year in May when the Dells Automotion Show is......so.....I had the Survivor car on the lift doing some maintainance and I noticed that the passenger side axle seal had a very slight leak......So..I decided to fix it......As long as I had the car apart I was going to put in Ceramic pads as the ones on the car generated a lot of brake dust on the rims......So....I go to the local parts store and get a parts guy and the first question is "Sir.....year, make, and model".....( Now....I needed a stock rear axle seal,,,rear pads for a 85 Seville and front pads from a mid 90's Caprice).....After a lot of confusion (Imagine that!!!) and the guy coming back with a transmission yoke seal I decided it was time to leave.....LOL
So I go to the local Autozone and the guy there found the axle seals but, they didn't have any in stock and after a couple of minutes I could see it was time to leave there also.......
I go to Advance Auto Parts and wait for the store manager to free up and was out of there in two minutes with everything I needed.......




After taking everything apart.....again.........I found out how untalented I am..........Here's what I found.....when I installed the rear pads there is a stud on the inside face of the inner pad that was "SUPPOSED" to key into a slot in the piston......Sheesh!!!







This car stuff is hard!!......I also ordered a new set of axles as the old ones had some corrosion in the seal areas and that's what was eating the seals after a period of time...I guess it's just called "Fine Tuning"....LOL

[Xplantdad]

Very cool...

[ORIGLS6]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: kwhizz</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Now....I needed a stock rear axle seal,,,rear pads for a 85 Seville and front pads from a mid 90's Caprice).....
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Damned Hot Rodders.

[Canuck]

Most parts guys now just want your serial number, so they can determine what equipment on that Vehicle from the factory. No parts books in dealers any more!!!

Imagine how Johnny Cash Felt trying to loacte parts for his 51.52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60 Cadillac!

[WILMASBOYL78]

It's nice to see a little &quot;rust&quot; on the rotors [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

wilma

[kwhizz]

Got the car back together today and another piece of the puzzle was solved........When I originally put the car together with the complete 4 wheel disc brake system from CPP......I had nothing but problems trying to get the rear Parking Brake/Disc (85 Seville calipers) to function......just couldn't get them to work correctly (there is a ratcheting mechanism that is built into the piston and when the E-Brakes are applied....It automatically keeps everything adjusted and the mechanical function serves as the E-brake) I tried everything and ended up cutting and modifying the pull cable bracket to get a basic function of the E-Brake as the pads were loose and the ratchet function did nothing to tighten them up............
So.......while everything was apart, I decided to put Ceramic brake pads on the car as there was quite a bit of brake dust with the CPP pads....The fronts went right in.....but I was concerned about the issues I had in the past with the rears........So......As I was installing them, I noticed that they were about 3/32&quot; thicker per pad than the pads I took out.....Hummm!!!......as I was putting everything back together it was becoming very clear why I had all those issues before....the New pads supplied with the kit were actually thinner than they should have been and they were at the limits of the ratchet piston out adjustment at that point.......Duhhh!!!......There was another person in the area that was going thru the same problems at the same time I was doing mine....we both figured we didn't know what we were doing and never questioned the pads as supplied with the kit.......With the thicker pads everything works perfectly.............Another Lesson .......with Graduation papers this time.....LOL.....( The other guy stopped trying to get them to work and put the drums back on.....I just called him and told him what the problem was.......Boy!!.....Am I smart!!!!)

[Postsedan]

I hope Mark took the news well, good stuff [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img]

Dan

[x Baldwin Motion]

only go to Autozone for air-fresheners or floor mats [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/no.gif[/img]

[WILMASBOYL78]

100 pages....another Wisconsin milestone [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/[/img]