Brake failure on Friday...

[mazilla]

As I was sitting at the red light at the end of the freeway offramp I felt my brake pedal suddenly go soft and hit the floor...SHIT, that's no good!

Sure enough I had lost 100% break pressure and knew there was a leak somewhere...having just done a complete break swap front and back I was pretty sure the culprit was the passenger rear as I was left with an intermittent squeak for the last couple of months.

Light turns green and I slowly cruise down the slight hill and coast to the first cross-street and pull over. I look at all four wheels and sure enough passenger rear(squeaky) was dripping all my ATE super blue on my new(ish) rim. I look left and lucky for me, A BRAKE SHOP!


I pull in, they get the drum off and the wheel cylinder end cap has come off, letting out a butt-load of fluid. I had managed to jab a tiny hole in the OEM cylinder during the brake job and was forced(on a Sunday) to get that aftermarket part from O'reily...the part failed. The mechanic reassembled the cylinder, put everything back together and tested it. He opened it back up and we noticed the left side(pointing towards the read) of the cylinder was not moving the shoe at all. I had him swap out the cylinder again(still not oem, see below).


I was in the middle of work, forgot my wallet at home and didn't ave my ATE on me at the time...on top of that my wife had taken her cell in for a screen repair about 20 minutes into my ordeal. If it wasn't for Facebook messaging and my neighbor who was nice enough to drive to my wife from his work with his cell I would have been hating life.


Anywho, that was my Friday...how was yours?