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Cottin pickin brakes and water heaters.....grrrrr. (1/6)
11/1/11 11:29am

indy99
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Newport, MI - USA

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So the right rear caliper decides to freeze up on my Mazda6 wagon. Since it has 140k mi I will do both sides. 2 calipers @ 85ea, 2 rotors @ 24ea, and pads @32.

For the life of me I could not get the old rotors off. I beat them, sprayed them, and heated them cherry red...no go. I had to order 2 new axel hubs @ 110ea.

Put everything back together, it looks sooo shiney. Bleed brakes multiple times....no good. Now I am ordering a new master cylinder. 94.00. Had another car do this to me too. Waiting on m/c.

At the same time my water heater let go while I was not home. Grrrr not now!! 986.00 its fixed but water went everywhere. Looked at old heater and found a small leak in the back of it also besides the big one.

Seems to have been dripping for quite some time. I have to replace 1/3 of the flooring and 1/2 the wall panels due to moisture and mold.

All I want is a repair free Christmas.

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Re: Cottin pickin brakes and water heaters.....grrrrr. (2/6)
11/1/11 2:10pm

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I feels yer pain, my man! Water heater explosions ain't no fun attall!!
On the rotors...front or rear? Did you happen to notice a small, Phillips head screw in them anywhere around the hub area? Most have a fastener of some sort to keep them attached to the hub from the factory.....just throwing that out there....little late now, but it might help in the future. Wink

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Re: Cottin pickin brakes and water heaters.....grrrrr. (3/6)
11/1/11 3:30pm

indy99
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These were the rears. The rotors had 2 screws which I removed. The M/C should be here Thurs afternoon.

The key lock for the locking lug nuts broke too. Got to get a key from the dealer, no one else carries them.

Life goes on.

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Re: Cottin pickin brakes and water heaters.....grrrrr. (4/6)
11/1/11 6:03pm

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I feel your pain! I had my whole basement flooded by a water heater once!

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Re: Cottin pickin brakes and water heaters.....grrrrr. (5/6)
11/2/11 6:58pm

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Fun stuff fixing cars isn't it..I've cut the rotors off cars before..torch worked good..no fun when everything is stuck together..hopefully you're done for a while.

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Re: Cottin pickin brakes and water heaters.....grrrrr. (6/6)
11/2/11 10:45pm

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Wull...iffin ya'll dint live up thar in Yankeeland, whar thuh tin worms had a buffet ever day tuh feed on, that sorta stuff wouldn't happen....

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