like tonight or sometime friday ?

they need to be changed badly and i don't know if my dad can come up or if i can go home.

i'll pay.

its a 01 eclipse

8/24/2005 1:56:05 PM

Will you exchange brain for brakes?

8/24/2005 2:17:30 PM

she can get you autographs of the rest of her motley WWE wrestling crew Degeneration X,

or perhaps a copy of her sex video with the group's former leader, the notorious XPac

[Edited on August 24, 2005 at 2:22 PM. Reason : IT WRITES ITSELF!!1]

8/24/2005 2:20:25 PM

That might actually be better than brain.

8/24/2005 2:24:36 PM

it takes like two sockets and a jack/jackstand at most...oh and a C clamp...i think you can handle it

8/24/2005 2:30:06 PM

a C clamp on brakes? wow

8/24/2005 3:53:06 PM

^i dont get it

8/24/2005 3:57:51 PM

to slowly force the piston back so you can get the new pads in

you know that disc brakes are self adjusting....right?

8/24/2005 4:01:45 PM

there must be good instructions somewhere on the net

8/24/2005 4:08:08 PM

instructions, by me:

take off wheel via lugnuts

take off caliper via big bolt or two that hold it on

pads can now be removed from caliper with ease

push piston back in caliper with c clamp

put new pads in caliper

put caliper back on w/bolts

put wheel back on

next wheel please

8/24/2005 4:10:44 PM

Quote :

"a C clamp on brakes? wow"

whats with the wow

[Edited on August 24, 2005 at 4:14 PM. Reason : and the ?]

8/24/2005 4:14:30 PM

fuck the C clamp, spend $10 and get the "right" tool from sears. its use specifically for pressing back the piston. and its reallll easy to use.

8/24/2005 4:18:38 PM

well this was an opp. for someone to earn some extra cash, if they needed it as well.

gg tww

8/24/2005 4:19:12 PM

^^ true

[Edited on August 24, 2005 at 4:19 PM. Reason : ^^]

8/24/2005 4:19:29 PM

does the c clamp damage anything? whats the point spending $10

8/24/2005 4:20:21 PM

ive never really used the C clamp method. ive always used this tool from sears, if not then a big channel lock plier.

i mean, a c clamp that big, probably like $5-7 or so.

8/24/2005 4:23:04 PM

C clamp is the right tool.

I will do pads for 20, but i just left raleigh.

8/24/2005 4:23:16 PM

hah, i mean. it works just as good.

but not the right tool.

8/24/2005 4:23:54 PM

^^ why were you in raliegh?

8/24/2005 4:25:56 PM

paging zxappeal

8/24/2005 5:09:14 PM

Quote :

"fuck the C clamp, spend $10 and get the "right" tool from sears. its use specifically for pressing back the piston. and its reallll easy to use."

you, sir, are a sucker. they work the same way. unless you have more than one piston per caliper, a c clamp is just fine.

by your logic, you should flag down the snap-on guy, and give him $110 to get the right tool, and not fuck your brakes up with some sears junk.

8/24/2005 8:14:09 PM

i usually buy a c-clamp from home depot and return it after im done. and dont forget new brake shins ...

8/24/2005 8:18:59 PM

Now is it really worth returning a $10 C-clamp, that you will eventually use again? Just doesn't seem worth the trouble.

8/24/2005 9:40:02 PM

i use the C shaped vise grips, for the fronts. you might need to spin the rears inward and you can use needle nose pliers for that

8/24/2005 9:56:45 PM

i have never, in my life, heard such a debate about a c-clamp.

8/24/2005 10:01:51 PM

all yall are cheap bastiods

i change my pads so infrequently that I just replace the whole calipers wether they need it or not

plus, im a baller and i do it like im doing it for tv nigga$$$

8/24/2005 10:02:31 PM

Fuck a C-clamp. I have one, and I also have a tool made especially for the job.

I may be able to do it this weekend, but not before, unless Friday night sounds good.

8/25/2005 1:51:39 PM

niggga i gots a K-clamp

8/25/2005 3:32:00 PM

why buy the correct tool? take a peice of flat bar, drill and tap it and run a 3/4" bolt in there, and you have one for free. the only disadvantage to a c-clamp is that it is big and awkward, but i still use one everyday at work, what the hell is the big deal?

8/25/2005 3:37:56 PM

not as good as an NGR clamp

my bad ive been mistaking "c clamp" for "c clip" all this time.

but still, a c clamp itself wont work on my car's front brakes because you have to rotate the piston back in. thats why I use a locking vice

[Edited on August 25, 2005 at 3:45 PM. Reason : may be the same for eclipse]

8/25/2005 3:44:42 PM

Quote :

"take a peice of flat bar, drill and tap it and run a 3/4" bolt in there, and you have one for free."

I know it only takes about 15 minutes, but I value my time more than having to hunt that shit down and do that work making the damn thing. I just stepped around the counter, pulled it off one of our racks, and paid employee price for it. And I have used it enough to pay for itself tenfold. Sometimes using a c-clamp is a lot more awkward.

8/25/2005 4:37:17 PM

changed the brakes yest. with my dad at home, he did the 1st and i did the other, yes we had the c-clamp, alot easier than i thought.

i have to change the back ones soon too, now i can do it myself

8/26/2005 1:04:06 AM

did you bleed them too, or just change out the pads?

8/26/2005 1:51:15 AM

there should be no need to bleed the brakes if you are just changing the pads.

8/26/2005 2:40:29 PM

Quote :

"i usually buy a c-clamp from home depot and return it after im done"

lol, I did that shit once. pads wore out at Roebling Road and I didn't have my C Clamp with me. So I went to Advanced bought one, returned to the track, and replaced the pads. Then after the track event was over I returned the clamp to Advanced...

...profit

8/26/2005 2:43:51 PM

^is that drag or what?

8/26/2005 5:55:54 PM

2 mile road course. fast track, not much elevation change, but I like it!

8/26/2005 10:03:05 PM

^^^nobody at the event had a pair of channel locks you could use?

8/27/2005 12:29:17 AM