I was able to get the brake torn back apart and replaced the wheel cylinder again. That's the remnants of the bleeder screw in the bottom. I bled the brakes all around and then adjusted them. It now has a great pedal, about 2/3 of a pedal, which is as good as it has ever been....
Foreshadowing in the title, there... Now that the rear brake had been gushing fluid for nearly a month, inside of that brake drum was a mess. I didn't snap a picture before hosing it down with brake cleaner. It was awful in there. A thick black, sludgy, fuzzy (?) mess. This pi...
Back at it again! This time, with a 36" cheater pipe. Also, I anchored the car a little better to keep it from roll starting on me. A few more rounds of heating and torquing, then the inevitable happened. It was apparently too much to ask of Mr. Goodwrench. R.I.P. I never did...
Back to that driver's side rear wheel, I made a couple more attempts at getting the axle nut loose. For a start, I bought a Bernzomatic MAP gas hand torch kit (Amazon link)... I heated the axle nut until it was smoking, then jumped up and down on it with my old faithful 17" lo...
After a successful second master cylinder replacement, I went back out a couple of weeks later to adjust the brake shoes and found that both rear wheel cylinders were blown. Brake fluid all over the place in the rear. I ordered new wheel cylinders for the front (Amazon link) a...
After replacing the brake master cylinder with a Dorman model, I noticed the brakes were already fading by the end of the 150 mile trip home. I started the trip with a full, hard brake pedal. By the time I got home, there was barely any braking down to the last inch of pedal t...
After the first couple of coats of primer and paint went down, there was a lot of texture to the paint. Mainly over-spray dust. I tried going over it first with the blue Scotch-Brite pad, which is the one safe for non-stick pans. That took some dust off, but not the texture. I...
As mentioned in the Panel Beater post, my last batch of shine juice clotted up and became tacky cement on the car. It wouldn't wash off. Mineral spirits wouldn't take it off. I ended up wiping the whole car down with Acetone, which accomplished a couple of things. It easily cl...
After finding a decent color match with the Krylon Fusion All in One Matte Vintage Blue, which I sprayed in the spare tire well, I decided I should go buy another can or two to keep around. I went back to Lowe's where I originally bought that paint and that whole line of paint...
I bought a set of door glass rubbers/felts/scrapers, because they are all dry, cracked, and broken. When I saw how much disassembly was actually necessary to replace all of them in each door, I decided to start small and just do the vent windows. Starting on the passenger side...