The key lesson here is easy so I’ll get right to it: Disc brakes are much easier to work on than drum brakes. That being said, here are some highlights and before/after pictures from my recent brake job on the Dodge 1500. Maybe there’ll be a lesson in here somewhere… These are one set of …
Monthly Archives: October 2011
New Toy…For A Little Bit
(A quick update on the last post: I forgot to mention I didn’t drive out to or back from California. Google Maps isn’t really intended for plane rides. The rest of the mess on the Eastern Seaboard was driving though.) So when I flew out to California two weeks ago, there was an interesting film …
Minor Jobs
As cliché as it is for a blog to comment on how often it doesn’t post, I actually have an excuse! Almost everything I’ve been working on for the past four months have either taken much, MUCH longer than I’ve hoped to finish, or have been failures, or has been interrupted by me traveling to …
Failures and the Truck’s Bumper
Time to try something new! I just put a new bumper on my truck. And, since it was made out of steel instead of plastic and aluminum, I was obligated by natural law to put a winch on it. What started this project was an “altercation” offroading around the Tennessee/Alabama border in which my truck …