Spending a saturday. :-)

A 95 and never had the brake fluid replaced. Yup, you will notice a huge difference in pedal firmness. Brake-fluid is probably the most neglected service item on a car.

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We got a bunch of Cub Scouts together and turned my flat bed trailer into a float for the upcoming Poway Days Parade.

Dads w/ power tools, kids with paper mache and paint. I had loads of fun too.

Then I went to a pool party.

Erich

Uhh, Saturday. I worked from 2am-10am. Then I worked from 6pm-630 Sunday morning.

Great saturday. I made a nice little chunk of change.

Don Manning

I spent my Saturday working on my rear brakes... for a/b 2 hours (hair less maybe). Then today I took off the passenger side tire/wheel.. sanded the rotor a bit to get the brake dust off... now 0 brake noise. w00t. Today I've got a bit of work to do though... I am really liking my freelance job :P ($35/hr--web development)

-Mike

-- A happy kid behind the wheel of a 98 Mustang GT Cold air intake FRPP 3.73 gears Steeda Tri-Ax Shifter Full Boar turbo mufflers Hi-speed fan switch

I put the second coat of paint on the kids' toy room.

I spent my saturday hugging and kissing my grandson. I had been out there for a week and was getting all the loves I could before I had to leave the next morning.

Kate

| > I had loads of fun. Went over to a buddy who knows how to do brakes to | > have him show me how to work on them. It really is not that hard. The | > ones who have been telling me that are right. | >

| > Of course we ended up spending most of the saturday on this due to some | > unexpected issue. | >

| > I got NAPA premium pads as the PFC's recommended in here, although | > doing a damn good job of braking, seem to have a tendency to eat up the | > stock rotors. So perhaps next time I'll spring for some slotted/drilled | > ones as well as braided lines and put PFC's on. | >

| > The rear pads came off easy and appeared to be the factory ones. About | > 2mm was all that was left after 110K miles. I got the caliper toolkit | > sold at harborfreight which made the job of screwing back the cylinder | > a lot easier. (Gotta get me another one as I gave this one to my buddy | > and they are on sale right now 50% off) | >

| > The front ones were a b*tch, seems they got replaced at one time and | > were tighened using air/power tools. No way to get either the torx or | > the E-10 off. We ended up taking the entire caliper off. No biggie as | > the rotors needed to be turned anyway. Took those to shop close by and | > got them back about 2 hours later. Done 100%. | >

| > Since we had her on jackstands, the oil got changed as well. I got 6 | > qt's of Valvoline Synpower through a Free after mail in rebate so that | > went in to see how it would stack up to Mobil-1. Also the fuel filter | > got changed. Watch it when you buy a Purolater one. Mine did not come | > with the little clips and one of the old ones broke. So a trip to | > Autozone was in order there. :-) | >

| > Oh yeah, we open the NAPA box with the front pads only to find out they | > had given me AE-7476 pads (not Mustang) instead of AE-7478. So another | > trip to the store was in order (Lesson learned: verify what's on the | > bax against the receipt before leaving the store!) Turns out NAPA's | > stckboy must have been a PepBoys reject as he'd stocked the spot for | > the AE-7478's with 7476's. So no pads. Causing us to go to the other | > end of town to the next NAPA who did have a set. In the pouring rain of | > course... :-) | >

| > Finally, we bled the brakelines fully. Good thing at that. I doubt the | > fluid ever got changed. Nasty stuff. There even was a little air in the | > lines. Used Valvoline Synth brakfluid to see hwo that holds up in oru | > Florida climate. | >

| > To end our day, we'd left the car door open to long it seemed. Not | > enough juice in the battery to start her. Duh! Luckily there's two more | > Mustangs on the premises so a jump was easy. Took a test drive to bed | > the pads in. What a difference, hit them hard (not hard enough to lock | > them, just hard enough) and she now tries to bury her nose in the | > asphalt! | >

| > All in all, even with our little difficulties, a fun day spent. I can | > wholeheartedly recommend this kind of saturday fun. ;-) | >

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| > I wonder how hard it is to install GT brakes up front. As I believe | > those are 12" versus the 11" ones on my V6. Is it just different disks | > and calipers or does the mounting bracket have to be changed as well? | > -- | > _ 1995 Mustang V6 Coupe (Bright Blue) | > |_| Member Modern Mustangs of North America (MMNA) | > |__| snipped-for-privacy@tampabay.rr.com

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