Leaving my house to check out my buddies cd release party (shanebarnhill.com) I come to a series of stop signs. Feel a little vibration like the e-brake is engaged at the first....I check, its not. Next stop sign its a little worse with noise...maybe I should go back home. Third stop sign I hear a loud clank and while in gear I cannot even idle forward. Good thing I have AAA. I have the bitch towed to my house as I am at this point only 2 miles away. Oh yeah to add insult to injury as I was trying to drive forward to get out of traffic with whatever seized my rear passenger toyo went pstsssssssssssssssssssss. Flat in 10 seconds, I think it must have had a weak spot from a screw I removed at the track last week. The tire was intact at that time.

My ideas are at this point:
ebrake stuck
rear brakes seized
gears done for
transmission took a dump
karma cause I spke to Beau in the last 24 hours

I will post more tomorrow cause I didn't work on it tonight as I went to the cd release and am drizzunk right now. Anybody in my area feel like giving me a hand tomorrow feel free, or give me some hints on here as I get some more details. I will be in the street having a very serious conversation with the passenger side ebrake assembly.

What a pain in the ***, my truck must be pissed at me cause she is acting like a reluctant bitch with no legs and missing a shoe. You figure it out.

 

Yikes, drunk posting is a dangerous thing. About to dive in to it...

 

i think #5 caused #1-4

 

Maybe. Got it taken apart. I lost a caliper bracket bolt and the caliper+bracket ground on the wheel for a bit then apparently it caught and BROKE THE MOTHER ******* RIM. That was the air rushing sound. I will get pics later. Everything else is intact as best I can tell. If anybody can, I am stranded for the time being and I need a bolt for my caliper bracket, 18mm head. (936)788-3665.


I just had to get pm from Beau.

 

That just sucks did you find out what the problem was?

 

See my post above. Looks like I need another 05 silvy wheel, and a bolt.

i picked a bad week to sell my R1, would make for any easy part run at least for the bolt.....

 

DAMN! Well, that explains the flat in 10 seconds part.
Can you get the tire off without damaging it?

 

I'm not sure. I will take it to discount and see what they can do....otherwise I think the tire is fine. I think if it is dismounted from the side of the rim without the fracture it will work.

 

What the hell caused that rim to break like that?

 

Like I posted above, my upper caliper bracket bolt went AWOL and so the whole assembly fell forward and was grinding on the rim, as it finally got wedged against the dust shield while going forward something had to give. The dust shield bent some but I am just as surprised as you that the wheel itself went before something else did.