Essentially. That and some grunt work. Nothing like being under teh car
and realizing you need another tool and having to crawl your fat ass out
of there and then hitting your kneecap or head on something along the
way, etc. etc.
I am looking for some help swapping a hatch on my s13 tomorrow. Maybe we can help each other out. I have no idea how to get off the panels to get to the wires.
I just need help unbolting it and trashing it somewhere. I guess I can drive back to Mississauga without a hatch to bolt up the new one. My problem is that I have no idea how ot deal with the wires while removing the old one. Maybe we can just strip it off when you are done with your brakes. I cannot imagine it will take long, but then again there are tons of things in my car I thought was easy to do.
The hatch is pretty simple to take off might need a second person to help put back in and line up proper. The no hatch look could be a new thing though.
Well, big thanks to Scott who came out and helped even though he didn’t
come back after he left.
Well, everything went smooth. I managed to put on the brakes and shit
myself and it was all smooth.
Until after I ate dinner and went back to finish off the brakes by attaching
the lines.
Driver side goes in fine. Done.
Passenger side, Im hooking up the lines to the caliper and the nut on the
line just keeps turning. Not good.
I take the nut out to see that there’s metal strips on it. I take out caliper
and notice about 3 or 4 of the top threads on the caliper were just
stripped and ripped out.
Looks like dad’s gonna have to cut the bottom part of the nut off so it
catches some of the threads and hope that it’s tight enough not to leak.