[roger_smith]

Some of you may recall my previous thread about blowing a brake line. I eventually fixed that so yay.

Now I'm having issues with a brake seizing up. This isn't a new thing, it's been a problem for a while. However, because I'm moving to a new home in the country (and thus a longer drive to work) I've decided I should probably address the brake issue. Also, it got so hot it started smoking the other day so.... time to fix.

While working on this I found that the work I paid a shop to do a year ago is already failing and needs to be redone. I paid to have a tie rod end done because I didn't have the time. Whelp, here we are a year later and the replacement part is alllllll loosey goosey. Normally, I'd probably just let it ride, but since if a tie rod end breaks, you lose ALL STEERING CONTROL, I figure that ones worth doing. If it was just a little loose I'd let it be, but this thing is LOOSE.

Le sigh... It's always something, right?

Off to the parts store!

[Oni]

Well, at least we'll know what happened to you if you stop visiting Sinisterly...

[Akane]

Sounds like you might just want a new car soon x.x

[Techno]

Inb4 you get T-bone steak'd.

[roger_smith]

New car is on the short list once we get moved and get all the house stuff squared away. this is all literally just a stop-gap to keep this poor tired thing running down the road a bit longer

[lux]

Embrace the bike man! Can't beat the freedom of two wheels.

[roger_smith]

whelp jobs pretty much done. I still need to do an alignment after the tie rod end, but it's close enough for now. The brake caliper wasn't as gnarly inside as I expected so now I'm starting to wonder if there's something going on further into the system. Will have to monitor for now and see what happens...