So on Friday I take my front uprights and new bearings and extended lug nuts to a machine shop I used to work at. A friend of mine who I thought knew what he was doing helped me. But when he pressed the hub into the bearing/upright assembly he did not support the back of the bearing race. Back of the race pops out and there goes $60. Earlier that day while pressing the new studs in the hubs the switch for the hydraulic press stuck (no one at the shop mentioned that was a problem). Before I could get to the pressure release to turn the machine off the hub was seriously compressed. But I really did not think much about it at the time. So I buy another bearing, $70 this time and have everything assembled. So just now I go to install the left rotor and it won't fit over the studs. WTF? Pull out the micrometer and check the distance between the ends of the studs. They are way, way off. I don't have a gauge to check run out but I would bet anything that hub is seriously bent. There goes another $70 bearing plus a $150-$180 hub if I buy it new. All of this just to save a few bucks. I can't afford to pay someone else but I spent more than it would have cost to pay someone else. Damn.

And to add insult to injury I opened up the brembo blank rotors I bought from a site sponsor and they are slotted and cross drilled. Great. This weekend was going to be my first weekend back on track in almost a year and a half. But I think I am sunk. Oh well, thanks for hearing me whine.

 

Damn, that sure is some bad luck, hopefully everthing will work out and you can still get to the track on the weekend.

 

wholy crap!

 

I have everything you need to make the race this weekend. give me a call and i'll loan you the parts. my car is down for the winter anyway.
404-895-8671

 

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now THAT is awesome....

a for a good person left in the world.


nick, who met another 'good person' when he ran out of gas on the highway friday..

 

Hell yeah. That is a kick *** offer. I called and will pick it up tomorrow. The folks on the road racing board are some of the best around.

 

I broke a slider bolt, it was siezed in the caliper bracket. Its nice a slidey now though, my first $60 pad change not including pads.

 

I pulled the same deal with a wheel bearing swap, I should have just payed soembody to do it and I know this because i'm was a tech and I know you always need the right tools to do the job. Well we didnt have the right tools and my friend swore he could do it.

I ended up losing a hub which isnt as bad but i could have payed somebody who had the proper tools and saved money and time in the long run

 

I'm thrashing to get ready for CMP this weekend too. I'm reassembling after a complete motor rebuild. Everything was going well until I started to install the timing belt Sunday night.

I carefully bagged every component and bagged & labeled groups of bolts when I broke the motor down. The only thing I somehow lost was the alignment key for the lower timing belt sprocket on the crank. So Monday I start calling around and no one has this odd sized metric key, including the dealer. So I bought a 3/16" x 3/16" x 1' piece of key stock from a local machine shop supply house late yesterday. After having dinner with my family and playinig with my kids, I hit the garage at 9:00pm and blow almost 2.5 hrs hand filing this key stock to a snug fit! By the time I tensioned the belt, torqued the pulley, hung the exhaust system, installed and filled the radiator, adjusted the valves and filled it full of oil...it was 2:45am. I figured I'm too tired to run a thorough pre start check...and I'm sure my neighbors didn't want to hear my my R cough to life at 3:00am... or hear me yell F&*K real loud about 25 times if it didn't fire up, so I hit the sack.

After my 4 hr nap, she came to life at 7:00am this morning with the garage doors closed. Relief.

Yes, I was at work at 7:45am this morning .

Tonight, another motor warm up, top up the coolant, bleed brakes, bleed clutch, get it off the jack stands and put the alignment strings on it and install the passenger seat and harness for joy rides. I'm looking at a 1:00am bed time.

Wednesday night = no car work, I'm taking my neglected wife out for dinner.

Thursday night, load car on trailer and load up tools and supplies.

Friday night, pack cooler and clothes and get to bed early!

Sat morning, wake up at 4:30am. Pull out for CMP at 5:00am.

This hobby takes such a tremendous amount of committment. Sometimes it just doesn't seem worth it...until you roll it out of pit lane with 2.5+ miles of curvy asphalt ahead of you. Then, those long nights seem worth it!

....and the kindness of racer dudes like Bosco continue to inspire me

 

Finally decided to do the rebuild... now your REALLY gonna smoke my ***!

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I learned a long time ago, what goes around comes around.

 

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Err...please don't say 'smoke'! I was burning 1 1/2 quarts of oil per track hour with the old motor!


Modified by Track rat at 4:07 AM 11/16/2005