stitchdup Posted 15 hours ago Posted 15 hours ago 6 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said: Well, that's not good. Hope it all works out well. i've got a little hearing back in my right lug but the left is still done. My boss at the place i volunteer called the docs for me so have an app in 2 weeks. 2
johnyrotten Posted 14 hours ago Posted 14 hours ago 1 hour ago, stitchdup said: i've got a little hearing back in my right lug but the left is still done. My boss at the place i volunteer called the docs for me so have an app in 2 weeks. Best of luck with it, scary situation.
89AKurt Posted 12 hours ago Posted 12 hours ago The joys of owning a 56 year old Corvette..... still fiddling with the brakes. When I drove to Flagstaff, pedal got softer, almost no pedal by the time I got back home. Been parked for a couple weeks. Today had a mechanic come over, discovered that THREE of the new NAPA calipers were leaking. The honeymoon is over. 1
espo Posted 12 hours ago Posted 12 hours ago 2 minutes ago, 89AKurt said: The joys of owning a 56 year old Corvette..... still fiddling with the brakes. When I drove to Flagstaff, pedal got softer, almost no pedal by the time I got back home. Been parked for a couple weeks. Today had a mechanic come over, discovered that THREE of the new NAPA calipers were leaking. The honeymoon is over. Old brake fluid and Chevrolets four piston calipers with long periods of sitting is a common problem. There used to be a kit to resleave the calipers for these. 1
Ace-Garageguy Posted 12 hours ago Posted 12 hours ago 4 minutes ago, espo said: Old brake fluid and Chevrolets four piston calipers with long periods of sitting is a common problem. There used to be a kit to resleave the calipers for these. Yup, but he's just put NEW calipers on it, and they're already leaking. 1
Ace-Garageguy Posted 12 hours ago Posted 12 hours ago 9 minutes ago, 89AKurt said: The joys of owning a 56 year old Corvette..... still fiddling with the brakes. When I drove to Flagstaff, pedal got softer, almost no pedal by the time I got back home. Been parked for a couple weeks. Today had a mechanic come over, discovered that THREE of the new NAPA calipers were leaking. The honeymoon is over. Not the car's fault. And welcome to the joys of buying parts today. This is my life, day in, day out. For decades I never had comebacks, but I have to jump through all kinds of hoops these days to ensure trash parts don't ruin MY reputation. 1 1
espo Posted 12 hours ago Posted 12 hours ago Just now, Ace-Garageguy said: Yup, but he's just put NEW calipers on it, and they're already leaking. Time to contact the supplier of the new units. Hopefully the fluid was flushed before the new calipers were installed. Brake fluids, and especially heat temp type fluids seem to have an affinity for moisture, this is most often a problem. 1
Ace-Garageguy Posted 12 hours ago Posted 12 hours ago 3 minutes ago, espo said: Time to contact the supplier of the new units. Hopefully the fluid was flushed before the new calipers were installed. Brake fluids, and especially heat temp type fluids seem to have an affinity for moisture, this is most often a problem. Many brake fluids are hygroscopic (absorb moisture), but that causes problems over time...NOT with brand new calipers. And if 3 out of 4 new calipers are leaking, there's no reason to assume more from the same source will be any better. The aftermarket parts situation is totally out of control. 1
89AKurt Posted 12 hours ago Posted 12 hours ago Appreciate the replies! I'm feeling stupid now for not taking advice from my housecall mechanic, he said the reviews for the NAPA brakes are terrible, and I don't wish to elaborate from there. Got two packages of these bungee cords for awnings. It wasn't until I opened the packages and noticed two cords without blue balls, then counted and found they just didn't come with them. I assume both had one missing, so I took one set back for a refund. Then I looked for another package and didn't find any. It's not like that's a bunch of money and time wasted, but the fact that company has bad quality control and maybe I should count every package contents, like are there really 100 screws in that box? 1
Ace-Garageguy Posted 12 hours ago Posted 12 hours ago (edited) 25 minutes ago, 89AKurt said: The joys of owning a 56 year old Corvette... Kurt...what gen Corvette is that under the Daytona skin? It's time to get on the Corvette forums and get some feedback about who makes/rebuilds decent calipers these days. AND...It's hard for me to imagine how an incompetent mechanic could cause caliper leaks...but choo just never know what some of these guys are capable of today. I've seen a whole lot of stripped bleed and line fittings where the "mechanic" blamed the parts, too. Edited 12 hours ago by Ace-Garageguy 2
Ace-Garageguy Posted 11 hours ago Posted 11 hours ago 3 minutes ago, 89AKurt said: ...It wasn't until I opened the packages and noticed two cords without blue balls, then counted and found they just didn't come with them. I assume both had one missing, so I took one set back for a refund. Then I looked for another package and didn't find any. It's not like that's a bunch of money and time wasted, but the fact that company has bad quality control and maybe I should count every package contents, like are there really 100 screws in that box? Hay mang, we don't get paid no extra if we put everythin' in the stinkin' box that's sposed to be in the stinkin' box, so whaddya expeck? 2
89AKurt Posted 11 hours ago Posted 11 hours ago Just now, Ace-Garageguy said: Kurt...what gen Corvette is that under the Daytona skin? It's time to get on the Corvette forums and get some feedback about who makes/rebuilds decent calipers these days. AND...It's hard for me to imagine how an incompetent mechanic could caliper cause leaks...but choo just never know what some of these guys are capable of today. I've seen a whole lot of stripped bleed and line fittings where the "mechanic" blamed the parts, too. 1969 C3. I have briefly checked out one forum. One member posted videos, he jacks up the back to bleed brakes. Then I watched another video from someone else, who swears the front needs to be raised, then I stopped watching. For someone who never was a mechanic (me), knowing the parts names is challenging enough, so I don't know who is blowing smoke. Another guy (Flagstaff trip) guessed the master cylinder is the problem, he showed me a unit with bleeder valves. Today I looked and no issue. I'm putting on Duralast calipers, lesson learned the hard way. 1
Ace-Garageguy Posted 11 hours ago Posted 11 hours ago 41 minutes ago, 89AKurt said: 1969 C3. I have briefly checked out one forum. One member posted videos, he jacks up the back to bleed brakes. Then I watched another video from someone else, who swears the front needs to be raised, then I stopped watching. For someone who never was a mechanic (me), knowing the parts names is challenging enough, so I don't know who is blowing smoke... And that right there is the problem with the interdwerbs. Everybody and his 3-legged dog is an "expert" and they'll all be glad to share the vast body of knowledge they've amassed from 15 minutes of actually working on a car, and what their cousins LeRon and Filbert said. Without a pretty good understanding of any subject going in, it's just about impossible to get anything useful from the technowogical repository of "tribal knowledge". 1
Russell C Posted 5 hours ago Posted 5 hours ago Kleptomaniac "irk" repairman came back this morning, the one in my April 23 comment. This time he's called in by the daughter of the next door neighbor (no wall between us, tiny little backyards) to see why the A/C stopped working. One of the problems (among several, it's a really old unit) is that the water condensation pipe out of the unit has dust/small leaves blocking its upward pointing outlet. But rather than ask the lady to get him a pitcher of water from her kitchen faucet to wash the dust out, he instead walks into my backyard, picks up my pizza pan-size plastic birdbath platter full of water, dumps it on the A/C outlet, and with the washed-out dust gone he shows her how the backed up pipe can now discharge. Give him minimal credit for putting my platter back - cockeyed on the wire stand - but can't even bring himself to ask her for water to fill it back up. If I didn't know any better, the repairman was born & raised in a hippie enclave where everyone's stuff was communal property, which anyone could help themselves to as they saw fit. A little hard to get mad at the guy if he literally does not know any better, but this kind of thing is really irksome. 1
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