BTW Long Beach Swap meet on Sunday.

 

Yeah I kinda feel the same way, but it's still rough, hopefully with some aesthetic work it will look a little good and be different from the rest that's out there.

I'm lazy tonight, my roomate has his car in the garage and thinking about going out to an LS1tech gtg tonight...that enough reasons!!


Blow me **** sucker...not literally though, figure of speech like. Hope that didn't get you too excited!!

I'll let you know, depends on how much I get done tomorrow. Would be nice if you came and helped me bleed my brakes you douche! Kinda hard to do it on my own!

 

Got the brakes fixed, thanks Tarrant (from wilwood) for talking me through what I needed to do today, I got it fixed...they were just stuck from sitting so long on my shelf with gunk that became caked onto the piston walls. I took the calipers off and worked the pistons with a C-clamp and actually took one of them out by accident and cleaned that one up good and re-installed everything and she spins freely now...Also makes me realize that I need to do the other one!!
I'll post some pics and vids later!

 

+1 for tarrant at Wilwood - guy is the goods.

good to hear you got it all worked out.

come help my finish mine lol

 

well thats good to see it was a easy fix



now go make some videos

 

Ummm...might of spoken too soon!!
Here's a video of the sticking brakes before...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2TJRFrvYUU

And here's a clip of that same wheel after I re-installed them and bled the brakes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oipYCj7vq2k

However, after I got them on I went out driving and "bedded" the brakes in and my god those suckers got hot!! I actually burned my hand when I touched my RIMS, not the rotors but my rims were scalding hot too!! But anyways, after bedding the pads I parked her for a while and let her cool down and just now I went for a quick little drive to get something to eat and log some short runs and noticed that when I'm at a stop and have it in Drive she won't roll or even creep forward when I release the brakes, same as when the brakes were sticking so it looks like the brakes are sticking again! Tomorrow morning I'll jack up the truck again and see which one it is and I'm hoping the passenger front just got worse rather than the drivers side front is at it again!!

 

seems the calipers are sticking still just try doing what you did with the c-clamp again and if it still dont work then look into getting then rebuilt IMO

 

Yeah, you might be right...I'll post pics here in a minute just for visual effects, maybe someone will see something I missed!!

 

Shot of the calipers when there supposedly is no pressure applied to the pistons...



With both bracket mounting bolts removed...



The calipers still clung to the rotor like the jaws of life!!



I literally had to pry the calipers off the rotor with a pry bar!!

After out an hour of working over the pistons and a few helpful tips and phone calls from Tarrant I finally got the pistons all the way seated with the help of some C-clamps.



I popped one of the center pistons out with some compressed air and as you can see there's some residue around the piston skirt...





I think that's what might be obstructing the pistons from retracting into the cylinder cleanly once the brakes are released...

Quick shot of the cylinder with the two equalizing ports at the base of them, I would of thought they would of been bigger but hey I'm no fluid dynamics engineer!!



I put the calipers back on and just to make sure I double checked to make sure that the caliper was shimmed right (used 2 of them) and it was centered on the rotor...





And then threw the brake pads on, bled the brakes and went and bedded them...feels ok...brake pedal feels "jolty". Not sure if it's the ABS or air in the lines or what but it's not a solid pedal feel at all!!

 

you might have to bleed them more i know i have the Z06 brakes on my truck and it took awhile a bleed the calipers i had to do it 4 times before the pedal felt not spongy. but there not hanging up anymore correct? what do you mean by jolty the brakes being jolty or the pedal being if its the peadal your referring to then its probably the ABS