Wednesday, September 10, 2014

I Think I Got All The Life Out Of These Pads

Last week I did a brake job on The Old Lady's car. Here is pictures of the rotors and pads. What's funny is I thought I'd hear something when the pads were worn to the point of needing replacement. There was a little metal tab that would make contact with the rotor when the pad was worn to a certain point, but we never heard any noise from them. Instead they got worn down with the pads. I replaced the pads and rotors and now it should be good for a few more years. The original ones lasted 5 years. I think the rotors were worn to the point where turning them wouldn't have been an option. They were close to the minimum thickness and were grooved pretty much.



The week before I rotated the tires and in the process discovered that the lugnuts were fucked up. There was a metal shell on the lugnuts and after having the tires replaced several times using impact wrenches the lugnuts were to the point where on several of them I had to drive the socket on the lugnut with a hammer in order to remove it.


This is what the lugnuts looked like when I got them off. They were pretty fucked up.


This is what I did with them. I took the outer shell off the lugnuts. It took some time to remove the outer shell from all of them (the shell had come off a few of them already), but now I have solid nuts to work with. I need a smaller socket to turn the nuts, but at least now I can put the socket on by hand and not have to use a hammer to drive it on. The lug wrench in the trunk is for the lugnuts with the shell on them, so I will need to put something in the trunk to remove the smaller size nuts.  They are now 18mm and they were 19mm.

I have a bunch of lugnuts off other vehicles, maybe I'll look and see if I have ones I can use to replace these.

Ford definitely didn't have a better idea with these lugnuts!!

4 comments:

  1. I will probably have to fix mine soon too..I did it on my chevy truck in 1980, but not sure I can do it on my Mazda truck with out help.so will have to hunt up Vincent..he's the best shade tree machinist in West.

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  2. you could probably get a few lugnuts from Congress. It is an off year elections.....should be some leftovers.

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  3. I still think you should have replaced the calipers also. You can get lug nuts the same size as the shelled nuts at a parts house.

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  4. Those wheels should have been screeching.
    the Ol'Buzzard

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