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Mt_Rider

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I'm of the opinion that is a very dastardly deed to strip out 3 of 4 hex screws involved in changing brake pads.....and then not replace them. So the next party who buys the vehicle might say....be working REALLLLLY hard to get this necessary brake pad job done say.....BEFORE CHRISTMAS....so they can have a LEGAL WORKING VEHICLE to spend Christmas with family.

 

 

Especially if that next party is unfortunate enough to do the side with ONE stripped screw first ....and manages to work around that after two days of toil in winter. THEN that unfortunate party figures the other side will go better cuz they know exactly what they're doing. Only to find that the other side has BOTH screws completely stripped. Now it's nearly dark on Christmas Eve :santa: and there is zero chance to fix this outside a professional automotive place....with all the tools and ability to replace the stripped out parts.

 

Christmas is postponed....

 

MtRider ...I'm so tired of trying to swim upstream.... :sigh:

 

 

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A rotten thing to do!

 

Lots of people do things like that when they sell a vehicle or a house. If you can't see it...it isn't there. Similar thing happened to me with this house. Years ago son went to change out a seal on the toilet. You know, the wax ring thing. Someone before us had put a new one in and used some kind of permanent plastic cement compound and it took son three days to get it all chipped out. Start to finish should have taken him an hour to do. It was years ago and he still talks about it. I was very close to having to call in a plumber. It was 'cemented' in down into the pipe in the floor. Idiots.

 

I suppose people do that stuff just because they can. Sorry it happened to you guys. I can remember D-ex working on our car in the winter with no garage too. And we lived in an apartment complex with everyone and their brother walking by gawking. It was a beautiful 1971 Nova S.S. I pushed that 'pretty' car more than I rode in it. We'd open the doors and put our shoulder on the frame and start running. Then DH would jump in real fast and pop the clutch to get it started and yell for me to jump in. Sometimes it worked and sometimes we had to run a little more. Good Old Days?

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Cemented in.....aiiieeeee!

 

Your Jump In and Pop Clutch ......made me smile. BeenThere;DoneThat! We've had SO many lousy vehicles! And the one brand new one......could have made gallons and gallons of lemonade. Love the Suburu but that particular car definitely didn't have all it's parts. And the dealership didn't know ya once you drove it off. :frying_pan:

 

We ended up with a cool VERY old pickup. Had curved windows in the rear. Brakes went COMPLETELY out. Lived 40 miles outta town. Had to bring it in to get brakes. So it was middle of winter in Duluth MN. Very high snow piled up on roadsides. VERRRRRY steep DOWNhill when you enter the town....till you hit Lake Superior.

 

:scratchhead:

 

So how do I get this truck with zero brakes down the hill a ways to the service station? Ya keep slowing it down by skimming the passenger side along the 10' high snow drifts. Creates a drag. Might have been puling on the parking brake too. On the LAST stoplight with the destination just beyond the light...it turned red. I jammed the truck into the snowdrift and held...till the green light and then slowly coasted into the parking area.

 

And people wonder why poor people are so crazy. :sassing: It just gets worse and worse and worse.

 

MtRider .....not really wanting to relive the 'old days'..... :(

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I've had my share of those cars too. I had a Buick that I had to time the stoplights just right too. And a car I had to shift down to 2nd. and then 1st. to get it to slow down. If it died there went the power steering.

 

I've been where you are plenty of times. And will probably be again. sigh. :hug3:

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Sorry you're having problems with your brakes.

 

I used to have a '65 VW. ... push and jumped many times, and down shifting while quickly and frantically pumping the break petal... I really liked that little thing and I could fix it and go.

 

One time the accelerator cable broke in the middle of an intersection. Fixed it with a twist tie from a bread bag to get me home. :)

 

Or the time my brother had to hold a flashlight out the window to light the road (until a cop pulled us over then followed us home, lightning our way) because the alternator failed and the 6 volt battery couldn't keep the lights on...

 

Then, it got to the point where I couldn't work a clutch anymore and I sold it.

 

Hope you are able to get it fixed easily.

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Nah, Sass. Pretty easy to tell when you strip a hex end bolt. After all, DH was just barely able to get the one on the other side to come out and go back in. We know it's stripped. It needs to be replaced but it you cannot get to the parts store....and it goes back in.... :shrug:

 

Annarchy...yeah we did THAT too! :rolleyes: That same old truck in Duluth. The battery was the problem but we didn't realize it. So when we took a trip out to our temporarily abandoned/frozen trailer to get some stuff, we had no lights to get back into town. We had a Coleman lantern. About 0 degrees and I'm hanging that lantern out the passenger window. My hand about froze. Fortunately it was a clear, full moon and lots of glittering white snow. Kinda pretty but real cold to have window open and arm out. :frozen: We could see the road perfectly. The lantern was for other cars to know we were there....tho we did this very late at nite and only met one other car. Was no option to stay at the trailer - we would not have survived the night. No heat in the truck either. So we got as far as the highway and rented a room in a motel you don't want to think about too much. But....that night the choices were about SURVIVAL....not freezing to death. In the morning, the lights were not an issue so we could drive to where we were staying for the worst of the winter.

 

MtRider ....it wasn't fun but ....we were so much YOUNGER then.

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