Car back on its wheels

[johnridley]

Brake lines in the back all replaced. The only significant setback was one leak; the line cracked where I clamped the flare tool on, so I had to pull it back off, cut a half inch off the end and flare it again. Luckily I left the ends about an inch longer than needed at both ends in case the flares didn't work right. I was using a double flare tool backwards to make a bubble flare instead, and it's not ideal but it actually works pretty well.

Tom's pretty good at helping with bleeding brakes. Not that it's hard, but he remembered exactly what to do from last summer when we changed out all the fluid in both cars.

That car's getting pretty rusty in places.

Next item: there's a break in the exhaust system, gotta get under there with a grinder, take out that section and clamp in some new pipe. NEXT month.

Comments

[dave-ifversen.livejournal.com]

Exhaust work is one of the things I absolutely refuse to do on the car (ever since I got a piece of steel in my eye working on an old system). It's far easier and quicker to take it to a shop that specializes in exhaust work - they have all the tools and the lift, and can do the job far quicker than I can.