Scenario , Rear Brake job price quoted on a 14 year old salt belt Lexus with 204K, needs tires and all sorts of other work. I sell the pads , rotors , and both rear brake calipers with brackets as well as front stab links and serpentine belt.
Get ok and proceed to attempt to pull rear calipers off but need to use the torch to heat the caliper brackets to get the freaking frozen bolts freed (probably were lock tited besides), then pull rotors and they are both hung up on parking brake shoes and I bust a parking brake shoe hold down spring retainer on each side. I could chase to a kind of far away parts store for a $25 hardware kit and heat the eight rear hub bolts and maybe have to slide hammer off the frozen rear hubs from the rear knuckles (damaging the hubs) so I have easier access to replace the parking brake hardware without having fits. I decide to just pull the rusty shoes off and wedge the cables. I feel bad like such a Hack doing this but sometimes you got to do what you got to do .
St Christopher and St. Nick please pray for me and my customer that he never has a reason to apply his parking brake for eternity . Amen
Get ok and proceed to attempt to pull rear calipers off but need to use the torch to heat the caliper brackets to get the freaking frozen bolts freed (probably were lock tited besides), then pull rotors and they are both hung up on parking brake shoes and I bust a parking brake shoe hold down spring retainer on each side. I could chase to a kind of far away parts store for a $25 hardware kit and heat the eight rear hub bolts and maybe have to slide hammer off the frozen rear hubs from the rear knuckles (damaging the hubs) so I have easier access to replace the parking brake hardware without having fits. I decide to just pull the rusty shoes off and wedge the cables. I feel bad like such a Hack doing this but sometimes you got to do what you got to do .
St Christopher and St. Nick please pray for me and my customer that he never has a reason to apply his parking brake for eternity . Amen
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