I had a chance to wash and do a quickie horizontal parts wax job. The roof and hood on the Elky was most of it. The roof is small, the hood is huge. They take the brunt of the sun damage.

Good ol single stage paint sure does wax up nice and never have to worry about losing the clear coat that I don't have. It was looking good for a 26 year old vehicle with 311,500 miles.

Good morning, fellas. My boys still have school this week. It is getting so hard to get them awake when the sun doesn't come out until later in the morning. But then the little boogers get up at the crack of dawn on the weekends. Going to take them to see Santa today. The lines were way too long at the mall yesterday. They will enjoy that.

I am gonna do some major cleaning out of the house. Want to get it in order while I have the time before I start my new job! January 7th. Have to go back to Chicago, their corporate headquarters. Yeah, Chicago in January but right now I don't care. AZ girl will go to Antartica right now if it means she has a job! :)

I remember hating to go to school and coming back home in the dark. Growing up in the upper Midwest meant pretty short winter days. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/suppo...s/pukeface.gif

Great attitude you have there, tweeze! Best wishes on the new gig and Happy Holidays to you and your boys!

Oh yeah, good mornin' y'all!

I remember getting up at midnight and chopping wood before I had to milk the cows and gather the eggs so I could cook breakfast for the family and then walking 5 miles uphill through the knee deep snow in the dark to get to school so I could go to the coal mine and dig coal until midnight ....

No wait that was grandpa. :cool:

Sounds rough. We only had to shovel 6-8 foot snow drifts out of our 120 foot long driveway before breakfast each morning. Then, off to school on foot...6 miles, uphill, each way, {edit} in the dark. :cool:

Morning all. Lets hope that nothing else breaks before xmas.

Except a break in the workload?

nope. I put in for the 24th off but thats not looking good.

That's a gyp. :(

I'm working all next week excluding the 25th. The following week is our next SoCal work-cation. Can't wait.

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Wow, that sucks. :(


I'm fortunate that my company treats us good. We are closed the 23rd-1st. I'm doing some work tomorrow and then I'm going MIA for the rest of this week as well... It's our slow time of year, so we can all get away with slacking. :D

That's nothing, when I was young we had...

right now we are just short staffed. I put in for it about this time last year but can they plan for it no. I am betting I get paid to do a lot of nothing that day.......

Same here except it was uphill to school and home, and I only had one shoe that I had to share with my sister.

Oh yeah I am grandpa. :D

ok, stijn-mind, why would the inner brake pads on my wife's subaru wear ridiculously faster than the outer pads?

for the record, i did buy about the cheapest pads NAPA carried, last time. if that is the answer, i did not repeat the mistake.

luckily, my wife noticed that the brakes were making an odd noise and told me about the noise. i noticed it as well, but it didn't seem to be grinding. i took out the pads on the right side and, while the inner pad wasn't worn all the way through and no damage occurred, it was pretty darn close to being worn through. also, the leading edge on the inner pad was thinner than the trailing edge. both sides were nearly identical.

i spent about $75 on high quality pads and swapped them this morning. the box stated that the pads had different friction material on the outer vs inner pads.

anyway, cheers.

Floating calipers will do that, I hope you properly lubed the slides and such

slides?

The slidie thingies that the bolts go through and the little metal do-dads that the pads sit on

ah...

i did exercise the bolts and checked the lube there. it looked good.

i put the new slidie thingies on and there nice and chromed. i think my mistake was that i reused the old ones, time. IIRC, the new pads did not come with new slidie thingies and they were very corroded.