Post by kelsham on Apr 22, 2013 19:11:22 GMT
Just not my month, the Landcrab is running really well, when I realise that the front brakes are rubbing.
I decide recon calipers are needed I get an estimate for about fifty pounds each. In the past I would have just bought new pistons and seals and fitted them myself.
Didn't seem worth bothering for the price. Took the calipers off and left them at the Motor Factor, Phoned this morning they were ready with two new front brake hoses.
In the mean while the leather dye I was using on my XJ-S seats was just wiping off after application, fifty odd pounds for the kit. The vendor blamed the seats!!! The seats await further attention in the laundry room.
The wife complained that the handbrake on the Rover 100 was incapable of holding the car on a hill, new brake cable required, followed by the discovery new shoes needed.
As I dragged myself back from under the car I grasped the tailpipe which came away in my hand.
Jaguar without seats, Landcrab without brakes, Rover without silencer.
Went out to the garage and started the 1932 BSA three wheeler and drove 16 miles to the Motor Factor to collect the calipers.
I left stunned having paid one hundred and seventy three pounds for the calipers hoses and brake fluid. Excuses about the carrier charge to deliver and collect the calipers ring in my ears.
It began to rain on the way home arrived safe but damp. Sun came out.
Began to fit the calipers and realised the copper bridge pipes are past their best.
back into the BSA and down to the local garage, only 14 miles away. This time the rain starts halfway there.
I get home clutching two new pipes and much damper. The Sun comes out again, well it is April.
The calipers are on, the hoses are fitted. Maybe I should change the Master cylinder rubbers?
Then just finish Jag seats, new silencer and brakes for the Rover.
Wish it would stop raining.
Regards Kels.
I decide recon calipers are needed I get an estimate for about fifty pounds each. In the past I would have just bought new pistons and seals and fitted them myself.
Didn't seem worth bothering for the price. Took the calipers off and left them at the Motor Factor, Phoned this morning they were ready with two new front brake hoses.
In the mean while the leather dye I was using on my XJ-S seats was just wiping off after application, fifty odd pounds for the kit. The vendor blamed the seats!!! The seats await further attention in the laundry room.
The wife complained that the handbrake on the Rover 100 was incapable of holding the car on a hill, new brake cable required, followed by the discovery new shoes needed.
As I dragged myself back from under the car I grasped the tailpipe which came away in my hand.
Jaguar without seats, Landcrab without brakes, Rover without silencer.
Went out to the garage and started the 1932 BSA three wheeler and drove 16 miles to the Motor Factor to collect the calipers.
I left stunned having paid one hundred and seventy three pounds for the calipers hoses and brake fluid. Excuses about the carrier charge to deliver and collect the calipers ring in my ears.
It began to rain on the way home arrived safe but damp. Sun came out.
Began to fit the calipers and realised the copper bridge pipes are past their best.
back into the BSA and down to the local garage, only 14 miles away. This time the rain starts halfway there.
I get home clutching two new pipes and much damper. The Sun comes out again, well it is April.
The calipers are on, the hoses are fitted. Maybe I should change the Master cylinder rubbers?
Then just finish Jag seats, new silencer and brakes for the Rover.
Wish it would stop raining.
Regards Kels.
