If it isn't one thing, it's another. GRRRRRR

[SeaCat]

Just finished moving as some of you knew I was going to do. During the move I smoked my front brake pads. Not a big deal, I have replaced these too many times to count. This time though it has caused some damage to one of my rotors so it will have to be turned down. Again not that big of a deal.

Today I went out to work on the brakes, attached lug wrench to lug nut, (no not my brother.) and cranked on it. I'll be damned if the blasted thing didn't shear the lug clean off. (Looking at it under a strong lens I can see the metal has crystalised. Wether from heat or from vibration or what I don't know.) Now it appears I will have to replace not just my brake pads, but the hub on that side as well. (The lugs are part of the hub dammit. Another piece of money savings/making by Dodge.) There goes my next day off.

Cat

 

[doormouse]

Can't you just drill it out and get a tap and die kit (sp?)

8

 

[Weird Harold]

(The lugs are part of the hub dammit.

I'd double check that the lugs are part of the hub -- most are replaceable even if theydon't look like it.

The old stud should just drive out witha punch and a new one can be pressed in from the back.

 

[SeaCat]

Thanks you two, I'll pull the hub on Tuesday and take a look at it. Maybe I can save a few dozen bucks.

Cat

 

[pop_54]

Thanks you two, I'll pull the hub on Tuesday and take a look at it. Maybe I can save a few dozen bucks.

Cat

Most hub bolts are just tapered and splined then drifted into the hub plate, or could even be a standard bolt siezed in with heat and rust, hefty whack with a large punch or drift on the broken bolt face in the hub plate should tell if this is the case here... Damn shame it caught you out like that, I just changed both brake discs with new and all four pads on the wife's car in about an hour and half from jacking it up to lowering it back down last week. £23 each for the discs, and £12 for the set of four pads wasn't bank breaking either.

 

[doormouse]

I wouldn't say he was ugly, but his mum used to feed him with a slingshot: pop_54

Sorry for hijacking.. but LOL!!!

 

[pop_54]

I wouldn't say he was ugly, but his mum used to feed him with a slingshot: pop_54

Sorry for hijacking.. but LOL!!!

He was so ugly when he was born, the midwife picked him up, took a look at him... and slapped his mother.

 

[SeaCat]

He was so damned ugly his mother tied a steak around his neck so the dogs would play with him.

She was so ugly the Football team wuld only screw her if they put a paper bag over her head,

Cat

 

[doormouse]

He was so damned ugly his mother tied a steak around his neck so the dogs would play with him.

She was so ugly the Football team wuld only screw her if they put a paper bag over her head,

Cat

PMSL!!

He was so ugly, he looked like he'd fallen out of the Ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down!!

 

[bloodsimple]

She was so ugly, seals clubbed her

She was so ugly, her mom used to put a sign out on the lawn saying "last girl before freeway"

(Both Joan Rivers, I think)

 

[doormouse]

OMG!!

LOL But they're getting worse LOL

 

[SeaCat]

She was so ugly she made a fortune posing for before pictures for Plastic Surgeons.

He was so ugly his mother fed him with a slingshot.

Cat