Saturday, July 25, 2009

New Brakes

So today Dad and I replaced the rear drums and brake pads because that's what real men do on the weekends. But apparently drum brakes are much harder to replace since they use a series of springs to hold them together. You can actually really hurt your hands if you don't know what you're doing. But anyways it didn't take to long probably like an hour and a half to complete the job. I'm not sure what were doing on the car next week but i'll make sure i post about it. So yeah I think that's it.

the inside of the drum after we took it apart.

some of the small springs and one of the old brake pads

the old drum

the new pads

the finished product. I think it looks a lot better.

1 comment:

Brian said...

Hey - can you come and help me replace my brake pads when you come visit us? I want to try to do it.

Also - update your blog! Didn't you do anything during the month of August!!

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