You're My Boy, Blue

[ScottyB]

oh yeah, finally got these on and bedded in over the weekend.  just a different world of capability over the stock pads.  by the 3rd hard stop they were already putting my hank00ks into ABS almost immediately.  i really need to be aware of that in the wet, because thats where the tires are total garbage.



best and most surprising change was the modulation.  the old pads bit really hard in the first couple mm's of pedal travel, then tapered off.  these are the opposite, very mild initially then they become super progressive.  i love it but have had to adjust how i heel and toe now, since my foot sinks further on the brake pedal to get a linear response.

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE

you think i'm gonna leave you without a classic Instructions Unclear™ moment?

got to the last caliper (the infamous rusty one), passenger rear, and was pretty tired along with trying to simultaneously feign interest over my shoulder while my kid stood in the doorway of the garage having a nerdout session that involved yelling to me the details of every major scene of the Pokemon movie he just watched.  anyway, on the rear calipers you have to unscrew a bracket that holds the brake line to the trailing arm so you have enough slack to pull the caliper off the mount.

with my eyelids falling and as i'm getting PokeFacts puked directly into my earholes at a firehose rate while i go "uh huh...uh huh...yeah...wow...uh huh" i am sitting over top of this last rear caliper cursing and yanking at it to try to get it off the mount.  i don't understand it...i took both mounting screws off the slider pins, wtf?  no way am i getting stopped at the final caliper, imma pry this bitch off.  so i go grab my long flathead screwdriver and run it under the caliper while prying at it against the brake disc.  its moving, but still stuck.  i am stumped.

then i peer over the caliper and realize i've been yanking the caliper against the damn brake line this whole time.  i never remembered to unscrew the bracket holding the brake line to the suspension arm.  Lord knows how much force i put on that banjo bolt as i strained against the brake line, but i just tried to pretend that didn't happen.

i can confirm after multiple brake-bedding panic stops that its not leaking, so i won't die in a fiery crash...immediately.  i am simultaneously a rather capable, and absolutely useless mechanic.