holy smokes ...

lol

what should have taken 2 hours at most took me 6 hours..

starting at about 3pm ..the driver side went fine..everything off relatively easily..then i realized i forgot to pick up the caliper tool...lol.. so 90 minutes later in my fathers E250 and while my car was stuck on the jackstand and right at 6pm when all the places closed the 4th place i tried actually had the kit..you know the orange box with the handle..soo anyway..

i get back and finally turn the piston back in.. while tearing some skin off the palm of my hand from that **** handle lol. its dar but i figure il do the passenger rear..i figure since i have the tool..what the hell.. itl probably take 30 min...HAHAHAH WORNG

so i go to put the caliper back into the bracket and lo and behold..the dealership that did my rear brakes last tightened those 2 bolts that go into the caliper sliders WAAAY too tight instead of 24ft lbs..so BOTH snap halfway out...sooo..now its cold and like 8pm and im drilling into the broken bolts to try and remove them and finally at 9pm i get the 2nd bnolt out..so everythings fine right? ..wrong i figure il use the bolts off my old V^ front calipers...but theyre too small ..lol so now i put everything back minus the bolts and put the wheel back on and pushed it into the driveway and now i gotta run to the dealer tomorrow and hope they have those bolts in stock.. .. i already called work and left a message that i have no brakes...not gonna be in monday lol

IM FRIGGIN EXHAUSTED lol..and missing some skin in the palm of my right hand..but at least im only 2 bolts away from being done with the rears... thank god the dealer never touched the fronts which are GT takeoffs..

 

Not how I would want to start the week, but just make the repairs correctly and the reward is all yours.

 

That sucks man, but thanks for the story. Always help to be able to get on here...you know you were saying "wait till the guys hear about this on the boards".

 

lol yea

i was soo excited to finally stop without squeeking and pulsing from the warped factory ones i was rockin..but alas il have to wait till morning.. since i took off from work i might as well do the fronts too lol

 

Atleast you have more time to take pictures to show us all. What did you end up going with?

 

Don't you know bu now, if you do something such as this on a Sunday afternoon something is bound to go south and you can't get parts/tools until Monday. Not to be funny, but it will all work out.

 

yea i told my girlfriend ..ahh il be done by 5 ..lol

my hand is friggin hurting lol

i went with rotopros slotted /drilled rotors and pads

i also installed HID 6k headlights and foglights on friday .. thyre soo obnxious..lol i love em

 

now nobody has the caliper sliders in stock until tomorrow

lol 1 and a half days off of work

;p

 

that's what always happens. I hate working on my daily driver, without a backup plan, cuz I know something will go wrong.

 

just finished the front wheels.. 90 minutes total .. friggin dealer lol


il take pics once i get the caliper bolts for the back and can actually drive it again ;p

looks hot tho