Well, the last time I chatted with ya’ll about brakes I was pretty sure I was going to have to replace mine on the SUV after having replaced the ones on TMBWitW’s Camry.

You are looking at what was almost a complete weld-up of the right front inner pad to the rotor. Wednesday morning I replaced the right front pads; that was a comedy of errors in itself. First, I couldn’t find my big sockets. Fine, I’ll use my big wrenches instead. All the standard wrenches weren’t quite fitting right. The closest I came was with the 7/8 – the 13/16 was just a tad small, and the 7/8 was actually too large. I didn’t have a 27/32, or I would have been fine. I tried using an adjustable knuckle buster, but you can imagine how THAT turned out. So, I carefully measured the bolt I was attacking and went to Checker to purchase a 21 mm box/open end wrench. When I got back, it turns out I had measured wrong. It was a 22 mm bolt. Back to Checker, buy the right wrench, and finally, about an hour and a half after starting on this twenty minute job, I got the caliper off the rotor, only to find the item pictured above. The back side of the rotor looks like the surface of the moon. I had to get to work, so I put the new pads on, buttoned up the right front, and promised the left front I would get to it soon.

“Soon” turned out to be this morning. At least there was nothing bad with the left front. Only took me about twenty minutes to do the deed. Next week I’ll be doing the back brakes, and I have to squeeze in the time to get the right front rotor turned before I completely ruin the new pads.

Even as I take a minute to write this, I’ve just gotten back from the dentist (one stubborn cavity needed to be redone) and I am making preparations to go to a friends house and install the screen doors that I built. I’ll take pictures and post them later, I promise.

If I don’t talk with you before then, have a safe weekend and stay hydrated. I’m staring 117 in the face with some high humidity – it’s usually raining by this time of the year, but the weather has been weird lately. California stole our rain last night.

Chat ya later…

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