Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Got a phone call from a mechanic mate of mine this afternoon...I was in the area so I called in to his workshop to see what all the fuss was about.

The story behind it is as follows....

Lady rang him early in the morning, saying that the brakes on her 80 series suddenly started making a grinding noise on her way to work...could he have a look at it, and fix whatever was causing the problem?

He gets it up on the hoist and this is what he discovers.

Top view of the rotor showing two huge chunks missing.


Check out how much IS NOT left on the rotor.


Close up of the two chunks


My mate said that when he tried to seperate the rotor and hub (or whatever that bit is called - not my mates words either, I just cant remember the proper name for it) the rotor literally fell apart.


The pads were none excistant, and the pistons in the caliper were well and truely r@@ted! Now keep in mind that the brakes only started making the grinding noise this morning. pfft. I wonder what sort of noise they were making for the last few months

Thats nuts

I thought I was bad for letting one of the pads wear down to metal

That's all i can say

maybe no brake pads just rubbing bare metal

Told my neighbours wife that she had no brake pads left and sparks were comming out under braking. She ignored me and continued like that for another 2 months. Cost them a packet to repair.

ive had 1's like this come into work. just not snapped

i was comin back from sydney the other day and i put my foot on the brake and it sounded like my pads were screwed but when i got home i pulled the wheel off and i noticed the calliper moved and i looked under it and the bottom bolt was gorn out of the calliper so when ever i put my foot on the brake the calliper was rising up at the back and grinding on the back of my rim so i think its worth checkin ur calliper bolts ppls

omfg

dad raged at me when i let my pads get down to 2mm left, if i showed him that hed have disowned me!

haha tipical dad thing ARE U LOOKING AFTER UR CAR SON!!

scottmcguinness172 wrote:i was comin back from sydney the other day and i put my foot on the brake and it sounded like my pads were screwed but when i got home i pulled the wheel off and i noticed the calliper moved and i looked under it and the bottom bolt was gorn out of the calliper so when ever i put my foot on the brake the calliper was rising up at the back and grinding on the back of my rim so i think its worth checkin ur calliper bolts ppls

I had the same problem... only it hadn't been making any noise. I found out too late when it moved often enough to snap the brake line at the bottom of the chicken track in Ormeau... vice gripped it and pulled the last of the tracks.

wow now thats dedication.. she done a good job.. as if it hasnt made a noise!

Yeah i did that in a Charade

that is just plain scary There are some complete fruit loops out there

I chased a stupid biatch in Sydney one night that had had a flat tyre in her Daewoo shitbox and continued to drive coz she had no idea how to change a tyre.

Ok, seen plenty of people do this, but the smoke from the disintegrated tyre and then the rim grinding on the road surface went from the city, over Anzac Bridge all the way to Haberfield when I finally made her stop before she farkin killed somebody. She wasn't driving real slow either

When she finally stopped the rim was ground down so far that the disc rotor was starting to grind on the road surface.

whereabouts in bris is your mates workshop g_lomis ?

Jesus.

dirtyGQ wrote:whereabouts in bris is your mates workshop g_lomis ?

B & D Mechanical, its on Spanns Road at Beenleigh.

She'll be amazed how well it stops with pistons on both sides working.

Comparitively of course.

thanks

Made me go check mine, i got all paraniod for a minute!

You think it would have been picked up by someone before it got to that stage.. DAMN

People always come into work saying stuff like... 'oh it was running hot since last friday, but i just kept going cause I only had to get to work, but it was ok when i drove it the next time, then today this steam started coming out everywhere'.

Least they got value for money out of the pads

I worked on a commodore that was worn even more then that one and they had put 2 pads on one side so the piston didnt fall out

This is a little off topic,
My boss didn't service his mitsubishi challenger for 170,000km. finally decided to service it, got it back from the mech, was driving it for about an hour when it surged, and lost all power. what did he do? kept driving till he got where he needed to go, called the mech, got it towed.
turns out all the oil galleries had blocked up with the old oil which had turned to grease.
funnily enough after a degrease the motor is still going strong!! still no excuse for not servicing your car!!!