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Originally Posted by Prong
Did some fine tuning on my 15 month frame off restoration project.
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WOW! That turned out amazing. You should be very pleased.
Lots of garage time for me this weekend. Saturday morning did front brakes on my wifes 07 Denali. With 38k on it the front rotors were grooved and warped but the pads were like new. I had the rotors turned and sanded the pads. I figure if the look like new at 38k I am not going to buy anything better.
Saturday afternoon I detailed my 77. I had not had it on the road since I recently detailed the front suspension so it was time for a shake down run. Its a good thing I did since it had an issue with the brakes that almost turned to disaster.
I noticed the pedal pressure was rather firm once on the road so I made a mental note to check the vacuum lines to the booster. About 30 miles from home I let a car over to enter the freeway. Once he got over, he also let a car over causing us all to lock up. At that point I discovered my passenger side caliper didn't work forcing a hard left pull and I almost ate the wall.
After limping home with a smoking front wheel, I discovered the brake line had been looped when I reinstalled the caliper causing the rubber line to kink. Pressure couldn't get to the caliper to stop, but once it did get in it didn't come out to release. Pulled the caliper, rotated the kink out and we were good to go again.
Sunday morning I went to a Car-Truck-Bike show on Lake Livingston at Wolf Creek Park. The weather was perfect so I was able to entice my wife to ride along. We spent the day looking at lots of nice hotrods and enjoying a beautiful lake view. We had to leave before the awards, but my buddies stayed.
I got a text a little later saying I had won "Best of Show-Truck" which really surprised me. There were several really nice trucks there, and I had no idea I would take a "Best of" award.