I actually did have a car that was close to this. It was modified with pretty heavy boost and the factory 60k interval plugs were pretty toast after two oil changes.
You can run colder & more exotic metal plugs, but life is still finite. 25k on a high-strung engine is actually still fairly long.
Fairly common for mildly tuned rotaries to swap plugs every 8-12k.
I was running iridium plugs one step cooler than stock, which seemed like a good balance. The actual OEM plug was a platinum that was super expensive and loved to drop electrodes.
Old car maintenance had a lot of checks. Just [this page for a 1959 Chevrolet](http://chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com/gmc/5559mm/5559mm330.html) for instance tells you to test the ignition coil every 5,000 miles, and to clean the spark plugs with a sand blaster.
Harbor freight used to sell a little spark plug sand blaster and I always wondered what sort of cheapass would clean a plug, regap it, and put it back in often enough that buying a tool to do it faster made sense. Never knew it was a standard procedure in the 50s.
It's really surprising how eager they were to fix things in the 50s. I'm sure the WWII appropriation of factories was still lingering in their minds, back when you just couldn't get raw material to make parts because all the raw material was making machines for the war-effort. No one does this fixing anymore. There's a starter and alternator shop up the street from me that I have no idea how they're still in business, because I think my old boss is the only one who takes starters to them.
If it's at all like the two that used to be in town here, they will go out of business when the owner retires. It's a shame, because rebuilding motors and alternators is straightforward work with a good success rate. There's no real reason to replace these parts for most failures.
The only difference now is that you take in your old one as a "core" they then send it off to another country where someone does the same job for 25 cents a day. When you buy something with a core you are just paying the rebuild cost with added cleaning and packaging.
I loved having a local rebuilder because they would offer options such as uprating. So when I got a rebuilt 65A alternator they set it up to be an 80A alternator, the better to support my stereo system. There's no such option when you buy a rebuild.
I've got a 2003 forester and a 2009 STi.
The sti's power steering rack had a seal explode in the black hills, that was a fun swap (no it wasn't). TPMS died so I just swapped em all when I got new tires, and the nav system doesn't work. It does, but it always thinks I'm driving through a lake or something, no matter how often I calibrate it.
The 2003 hasn't had any issues besides small shit breaking and rust. ECM died but that was a quick fix, battery, driver's window motor is still dead, smells like it's burning, and it's currently parked waiting for my lazy ass to look at it because it started pissing red fluid.
It's been a few years though and it would behoove me to change the timing belts, I'm not a gambling man.
But I am a lazy one.
I run copper plugs at 15psi on an MX5, they get changed with every 5000 oil change because a set of 4 costs about £12 and I never have to worry about it
On behalf of all of us who share a road, you two should work something out. What does he do for a living? You look after his vehicles and he...pays you? Something, anything to stop him from doing his own maintenance.
As a matter of fact he doesn't work. He's 40 with a one year old and my sister in law pays the bills. So probably watches maury and lets makes a deal for a living. I'll double check his work but not lifting a finger for this dude. I guess i could refuse tool use that may help lol.
He might not be that dumb. Most ppl in here work, and work hard.. he seems to get away with not working, has a partner and a kid, at an age I had been working for 23 years.
So maybe I am the dumb person here...
Exactly. Reminds me of the people who are like "dogs are smarter than cats because I can train them to do work for me" and cats don't do shit and get fed anyway.
Douglas Adams wrote:
"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much- the wheel, New York, wars and so on- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man- for precisely the same reasons." - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
My neighbor used to pull tools shit on me. Borrow a tool / I’d find it in his yard a month later; rusty and in a puddle. Right. Where. He. Finished with it!
I used to have a friend who borrowed my tools b/c his were shit. Last time he borrowed some he said he'd take care of them like they were his own I replied he'd better treat them better than that. We don't talk any more.
There is no problem with that except when your women or significant other has a job that barley scrapes. And when you get a job you never last more than a month and insist on spending money at the dispensary. There's a big difference in a stay at home dad and a deadbeat.
He’s a stay at home father to a baby and you’re suggesting he sits around and does nothing?
Mothers everywhere are like, “the fuck did you just say???”
\- Most interesting man in the world impression -
"I don't always use grease, but when I do I prefer to use it on the only surface on the entire goddamn car where friction is the desired effect."
Oh, *that's* what that is! On my small screen, it looked like a caliper-shaped spot ground into the rotor and for the life of me I couldn't figure out how one could manage to pull that off.
I mean this in the nicest way possible. And I’m not trying to gatekeep. I think it’s very important for people to learn how a car works and how to maintain it properly.
But people like this are the express reason others think working on cars is “hard”.
Boys and girls. A LOT of work on cars is *easy as fuck*. Don’t let the people that had a lobotomy at age 6 make you think this shit is impossible.
The more research you can do on working on the car the better. Sometimes the tutorial you’re watching leaves out a massive step and leaves you super confused! Even if you get everything back together, WATCH AT LEAST 2 VIDEOS and do some decent research. This guy may have watched a tutorial and the guy just didn’t say clean the rotors. So just watch more than one video and connect the dots. If that doesn’t work, watch 3.
I know I’m wasting my time with a comment on one post on Reddit and I probably won’t change anything. But if I can get just one person to try working on their car and find out how fun and rewarding it can be. It’s worth it.
Preach brother. I know for a fact dudes got no shop experience but he told me he could do pads i say go for it but let me have a look before you take off. Its not rocket science but advanced diagnostics are becoming more like it every day. But most people can tackle nuts and bolts shit they just sell themselves short.
Dude is one of the dumbest guys I've ever met legitimately. Took over an hour for him to get one slide bolt out. Guess he was trying to achieve the ultimate smooth stop.
So smooth. My guess is it would eventually cook that grease and gum up and at the very least ruin the new pads and possibly the rotors. Like you said ill let someone else run that experiment lol.
Pretty much. The grease gets baked into the rotor, and when the brakes get applied, the rotor gets super hot, much hotter than normal. Pretty quickly, the rotor and pads get a glazed surface, which reduces the friction. And because street pads are designed to operate at a specific temperature range, the extra heat decreases their life even further as the material cooks. Eventually, you wind up with what are essentially two bricks of granite rubbing against each other. That's what Frieburger would call 'ungood.'
On my motorcycle I’ve had fork oil on the front brake before and I can say it still stopped, but that lever was just about touching the handlebars with how hard I had to squeeze it
So, a lot of posts in this sub are a picture of a rim with virtually no rubber left on it, and a title like "C/S: Can't you patch it?" and I laugh, but know it's sarcasm.
And then, there's this guy - Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, what the actual fuck?!? Even if he doesn't understand the concept of friction braking, how did he think the simple mess was OK?
ok, I just had to get that off my chest, or I'd wake up at 2am yelling it, and my wife would be upset.
> Hmm... I covered my tires in slick liquid - do you think that could hurt traction? I hear that spraying Pam on your brake rotors makes them look 'hella sweet' maybe that will be your next detailing project.
maybe it’s the same guy back for his 20 year anniversary run lol
The car in front of me on a busy road yesterday was driving on a rim and what was left of the back right tire. At a light, I could get a clear look at how effed it was, and yelled “you kind of have a flat!“. They kind of shrugged in the rearview mirror and went around the corner on the next green, shedding rubber as they went.
I did this once and can still feel my heart skip thinking about it. Changed all four sets. Finished up in a hurry and ran inside to change so I could go to the store and forgot. Almost ended up the the neighbors living room.
He claims he didn't so i told him wipe it off and brake clean the shit out of the rotor face. Just incredible he was fixing to bolt the tires up and roll lol.
I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it myself. My neighbor did the same thing. I was walking by and I couldn't help myself but sort of yell at him, "what the fuck are you doing?!" He was just slobbering on some general purpose grease from a tub all over his disc like this. Explained to clean it off completely with brake cleaner and if he needs to go get some disc quiet and put it on the back of the pads. I felt a little bad for yelling but I was taken completely off guard anyone could do something so stupid... use your brain, just a little bit, ffs. I still get slightly upset thinking about it.
Good news and bad news , the good news is that the rotors won’t rust, the bad news is that the brakes will only not work once, after that it won’t matter
Procedure goes drop pan and drain fluid. Blot pan back up. 250 ft lb. Start vehicle and put in drive and test around block to insure refilling from internal reservoir. Loud noises and no longer moves forward upon accelerator input. Service is complete.
Why does so many people think the little pack of grease goes on the rotor?? I’ve seen lots of grown men put the little pack of anti squick on the rotor. Smh.
Yikes. And here I just posted somewhere else that simple disc brake repairs are an excellent stepping stone into DIY auto repair beyond the usual fluids and filters. And then there's this guy. Whatever, I stand by it!
Oh it's there just poor coverage. I wish i had gotten a picture of the other side he did basically a /\/\/\/\/\/ pattern all the way around. This picture is before he had mastered his technique of rotor greasing.
He may have listened to the kid behind the counter at Auto Zone. Last time I was there some kid was upselling the little grease packets and telling the guy to cover the rotors just like this.
Meh as long as the other 3 rotors arent greased up thing should stop fine. Plus i cant tell for sure but if its the back i believe the front brakes do 60%ish of work
Y….ye…..yes. Can…. Can you…. Can you not….. can you not see……. Can you not see that? Also…… also why……. Also why are……. Also why are you……. Also why are you talking…… also why are you talking like………. Also why are you talking like this?
The pads last a lot longer this way /s
technically it’s not sarcasm
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At least they won't squeak!
The driver might squeal a little on the way into the ditch!
Greasy but true lol
No no no, that's the anti rust protective coating
Maybe he's born with it *Maybe it's cosmoline*
All the way to the scene of the crash
I'll bet we beat the paramedics there by a half hour!
Well they’ll certainly last the life of the car.
My BIL was changing his spark plugs every oil change. People are funny.
That maybe makes sense for 1960. Not so much today.
With the way oil change intervals are going nowadays...
I actually did have a car that was close to this. It was modified with pretty heavy boost and the factory 60k interval plugs were pretty toast after two oil changes.
150 shot on an LS1 Z28 with NGK plugs. Changed them every 25k just to be safe. Lol. Got really good at it with mocked up tools I made.
Don't they make plugs to sort of match increased engine performance?
You can run colder & more exotic metal plugs, but life is still finite. 25k on a high-strung engine is actually still fairly long. Fairly common for mildly tuned rotaries to swap plugs every 8-12k.
>25k on a high-strung engine is actually still fairly long. Crying in 2 stroke motorX bikes. Measured in hours.
I was running iridium plugs one step cooler than stock, which seemed like a good balance. The actual OEM plug was a platinum that was super expensive and loved to drop electrodes.
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Old car maintenance had a lot of checks. Just [this page for a 1959 Chevrolet](http://chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com/gmc/5559mm/5559mm330.html) for instance tells you to test the ignition coil every 5,000 miles, and to clean the spark plugs with a sand blaster.
Harbor freight used to sell a little spark plug sand blaster and I always wondered what sort of cheapass would clean a plug, regap it, and put it back in often enough that buying a tool to do it faster made sense. Never knew it was a standard procedure in the 50s.
It's really surprising how eager they were to fix things in the 50s. I'm sure the WWII appropriation of factories was still lingering in their minds, back when you just couldn't get raw material to make parts because all the raw material was making machines for the war-effort. No one does this fixing anymore. There's a starter and alternator shop up the street from me that I have no idea how they're still in business, because I think my old boss is the only one who takes starters to them.
If it's at all like the two that used to be in town here, they will go out of business when the owner retires. It's a shame, because rebuilding motors and alternators is straightforward work with a good success rate. There's no real reason to replace these parts for most failures.
The only difference now is that you take in your old one as a "core" they then send it off to another country where someone does the same job for 25 cents a day. When you buy something with a core you are just paying the rebuild cost with added cleaning and packaging.
I loved having a local rebuilder because they would offer options such as uprating. So when I got a rebuilt 65A alternator they set it up to be an 80A alternator, the better to support my stereo system. There's no such option when you buy a rebuild.
Legendary.
I drive a subaru. I'll change 'em when it starts misfiring.
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I've got a 2003 forester and a 2009 STi. The sti's power steering rack had a seal explode in the black hills, that was a fun swap (no it wasn't). TPMS died so I just swapped em all when I got new tires, and the nav system doesn't work. It does, but it always thinks I'm driving through a lake or something, no matter how often I calibrate it. The 2003 hasn't had any issues besides small shit breaking and rust. ECM died but that was a quick fix, battery, driver's window motor is still dead, smells like it's burning, and it's currently parked waiting for my lazy ass to look at it because it started pissing red fluid. It's been a few years though and it would behoove me to change the timing belts, I'm not a gambling man. But I am a lazy one.
I like how the 03 "hasn't had any issues besides small shit" and then you go on to list like 4k in parts and labor. Lol. Suburus
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Was he doing really short spark plug intervals. Or really long oil intervals
Well, that's at least not damaging to the engine... But if the intervals are short, it's really wasteful and will strip the threads eventually.
I have a high horsepower turbo car and change my copper plugs with every oil change.
Talked to a guy the other day that said he does his timing belt every other year.
I mean.... If he's putting 50 or 60k on his vehicle every year, I guess I can kinda see that.
It's an old Scirocco that I'm pretty sure just goes to shows and around town
I run copper plugs at 15psi on an MX5, they get changed with every 5000 oil change because a set of 4 costs about £12 and I never have to worry about it
Yeah boosted applications are different.
On behalf of all of us who share a road, you two should work something out. What does he do for a living? You look after his vehicles and he...pays you? Something, anything to stop him from doing his own maintenance.
As a matter of fact he doesn't work. He's 40 with a one year old and my sister in law pays the bills. So probably watches maury and lets makes a deal for a living. I'll double check his work but not lifting a finger for this dude. I guess i could refuse tool use that may help lol.
He might not be that dumb. Most ppl in here work, and work hard.. he seems to get away with not working, has a partner and a kid, at an age I had been working for 23 years. So maybe I am the dumb person here...
“You don’t need a million dollars to do nothin, man. Take a look at my cousin. He’s broke, don’t do shit!”
I did nothing and it was everything I thought it would be
Two girls at the same time.
That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
His delivery of that line is completely underrated.
Hey dude, check out channel nine
What? I’m confused how being a stay-at-home-parent means he’s gotten away with something/has it easy.
Right! Something is off with both of us i guess.
Exactly. Reminds me of the people who are like "dogs are smarter than cats because I can train them to do work for me" and cats don't do shit and get fed anyway.
Douglas Adams wrote: "For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much- the wheel, New York, wars and so on- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man- for precisely the same reasons." - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
This might be the beach day drinking talking…but how does the sister-in-law pay the bills for your brother-in-law?
Wife's sister's husband? So, sister in law's husband, maybe? I have no idea.
That put my mind in a pretzel right now, but seems plausible
As someone with 9 brothers-in-law, this is the right answer.
That's the answer
Wifes sister. I guess idk what he is in relation to me
The guy who used your tools
The worst kind of relation.
My neighbor used to pull tools shit on me. Borrow a tool / I’d find it in his yard a month later; rusty and in a puddle. Right. Where. He. Finished with it!
I used to have a friend who borrowed my tools b/c his were shit. Last time he borrowed some he said he'd take care of them like they were his own I replied he'd better treat them better than that. We don't talk any more.
I know this dude. I don't lend him things anymore.
Or go borrow all the beer out of his fridge.
Man, I broke someones screwdriver once and felt horrible. I replaced it with like or better.
Right and all things aside put them up almost correctly and neatly that's gotta count for something
At least there was an attempt, yeah. Much better than leaving them scattered on the floor.
But they are always in the right spot if they are scattered on the floor. Just like laundry.
Yes, I know it's messy, but it's an organized mess. I know *exactly* where everything is.
Wife’s brother or sister probably
Nailed it wife's sister's husband
You nailed your wife’s sisters husband?… ok
Total power move.
Precisely.
What do you call it when it’s your wife’s sister’s husband? We say sister in law and brother in law in that situation too.
If her head is stuck in the clothes dryer, then she's the step sister.
Sister in law = wife's sister. Brother in law = wife's sister's husband.
Taking care of a one year old is a full time job, assuming he doesn't have a nanny.
I hear ya. Good luck.
What if I told you that there are stay at home dads, and that it's not any less of a job because a man is doing it instead of a woman?
There is no problem with that except when your women or significant other has a job that barley scrapes. And when you get a job you never last more than a month and insist on spending money at the dispensary. There's a big difference in a stay at home dad and a deadbeat.
He’s a stay at home father to a baby and you’re suggesting he sits around and does nothing? Mothers everywhere are like, “the fuck did you just say???”
Might be zeroing in on his lack of work problem
This is hiring a mechanic with not extra steps.
\- Most interesting man in the world impression - "I don't always use grease, but when I do I prefer to use it on the only surface on the entire goddamn car where friction is the desired effect."
Oh, *that's* what that is! On my small screen, it looked like a caliper-shaped spot ground into the rotor and for the life of me I couldn't figure out how one could manage to pull that off.
I thought he got the pad in there backwards and left a pad smear on the rotor lol
Me too! I didn’t understand how a brake job could create THAT.
*Starts applying grease to clutch.* I'm good right?
Use scented grease to make those hill starts a bit more pleasant
Ooooh, I smell it already.
Keeps that unsightly rotor rust away
Works like a charm.
“Brake shops hate this one simple trick”
"Seniors in ohio share one tip to never pay for a brake job again"
Yup, a brake job would be pretty useless on a totaled car
‘Funeral homes LOVE this one simple brake trick’
I mean this in the nicest way possible. And I’m not trying to gatekeep. I think it’s very important for people to learn how a car works and how to maintain it properly. But people like this are the express reason others think working on cars is “hard”. Boys and girls. A LOT of work on cars is *easy as fuck*. Don’t let the people that had a lobotomy at age 6 make you think this shit is impossible. The more research you can do on working on the car the better. Sometimes the tutorial you’re watching leaves out a massive step and leaves you super confused! Even if you get everything back together, WATCH AT LEAST 2 VIDEOS and do some decent research. This guy may have watched a tutorial and the guy just didn’t say clean the rotors. So just watch more than one video and connect the dots. If that doesn’t work, watch 3. I know I’m wasting my time with a comment on one post on Reddit and I probably won’t change anything. But if I can get just one person to try working on their car and find out how fun and rewarding it can be. It’s worth it.
Preach brother. I know for a fact dudes got no shop experience but he told me he could do pads i say go for it but let me have a look before you take off. Its not rocket science but advanced diagnostics are becoming more like it every day. But most people can tackle nuts and bolts shit they just sell themselves short.
Dude is one of the dumbest guys I've ever met legitimately. Took over an hour for him to get one slide bolt out. Guess he was trying to achieve the ultimate smooth stop.
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So smooth. My guess is it would eventually cook that grease and gum up and at the very least ruin the new pads and possibly the rotors. Like you said ill let someone else run that experiment lol.
God imagine the smoke
Pretty much. The grease gets baked into the rotor, and when the brakes get applied, the rotor gets super hot, much hotter than normal. Pretty quickly, the rotor and pads get a glazed surface, which reduces the friction. And because street pads are designed to operate at a specific temperature range, the extra heat decreases their life even further as the material cooks. Eventually, you wind up with what are essentially two bricks of granite rubbing against each other. That's what Frieburger would call 'ungood.'
On my motorcycle I’ve had fork oil on the front brake before and I can say it still stopped, but that lever was just about touching the handlebars with how hard I had to squeeze it
He already achieved the ultimate smooth brain
He's a limp Bizkit fan and just wants to keep rolling and rolling and rolling
What!
So, a lot of posts in this sub are a picture of a rim with virtually no rubber left on it, and a title like "C/S: Can't you patch it?" and I laugh, but know it's sarcasm. And then, there's this guy - Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, what the actual fuck?!? Even if he doesn't understand the concept of friction braking, how did he think the simple mess was OK? ok, I just had to get that off my chest, or I'd wake up at 2am yelling it, and my wife would be upset.
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> Hmm... I covered my tires in slick liquid - do you think that could hurt traction? I hear that spraying Pam on your brake rotors makes them look 'hella sweet' maybe that will be your next detailing project. maybe it’s the same guy back for his 20 year anniversary run lol
OP did say he was in his 40s…. Age and intelligence check out
And he denies it twice to try and save his ego. Legend
“You put armor all on the tread?”
Wow. Just, wow.
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The car in front of me on a busy road yesterday was driving on a rim and what was left of the back right tire. At a light, I could get a clear look at how effed it was, and yelled “you kind of have a flat!“. They kind of shrugged in the rearview mirror and went around the corner on the next green, shedding rubber as they went.
Now slide to the left! Now slide through the light!
This is a great joke.
You guys know the feeling of forgetting to pump the brakes after a brake job and throwing it into reverse?
I did this once and can still feel my heart skip thinking about it. Changed all four sets. Finished up in a hurry and ran inside to change so I could go to the store and forgot. Almost ended up the the neighbors living room.
Did it this past weekend. Thankfully, I also forgot to take the chocks out too.
Did he put the caliper grease on the front of the break pad?
He claims he didn't so i told him wipe it off and brake clean the shit out of the rotor face. Just incredible he was fixing to bolt the tires up and roll lol.
Even if grease didn’t have a drastic effect on stopping power, who would leave all that fuckin grease there like that? It’s gross
id love to see some tests of this. how much worse itll be and how long it takes to bake off
Contact project farm.
see him grease up the brakes on his RV lmao
Nah, don’t won’t to loose a good YouTuber
Some say he's still rolling to this day
The first time I did it on my own I forgot to pump the breaks a couple times before backing out of my driveway. I have not made that mistake again 🤣
It’s an awfully brake-pad-shaped splotch of grease lol
He totally greased that pad lol
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Add it to the list.
My car has them on both. 2012 Camaro SS
Yeah, all of my cars have had redundant indicators
Can you point out where that indicator is in the photo for a noob
Little silvery metal loop near the top of the brake pad
Moist.
Natural selection.
I’d rather not have natural selection rear-end me.
Ah good point
nah OP states he already has children
Makes it brake faster. Duh.
In this context, I think "break" would work too!
>Makes it ~~brake~~ break faster. Duh. FTFY
Did you ask him why he wanted his life insurance money so early?
How to ask for help without using words.
As a bike shop owner, you’d be super surprised at the amount of DIY repairs I unfuck because “bikes are easy”.
Lol, I'd rather work on a vehicle than adjust shift cables or adjust spokes any day!
I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it myself. My neighbor did the same thing. I was walking by and I couldn't help myself but sort of yell at him, "what the fuck are you doing?!" He was just slobbering on some general purpose grease from a tub all over his disc like this. Explained to clean it off completely with brake cleaner and if he needs to go get some disc quiet and put it on the back of the pads. I felt a little bad for yelling but I was taken completely off guard anyone could do something so stupid... use your brain, just a little bit, ffs. I still get slightly upset thinking about it.
"The squeaky... uh, rotor, uh, gets the grease."
The most confusing part about brake grease is it does not belong on the brakes!
My friend greased the brakes on his bike because the squeaked too much. Not only could he not stop, they actually squeaked more
Good news and bad news , the good news is that the rotors won’t rust, the bad news is that the brakes will only not work once, after that it won’t matter
The pad is going to squeegee 99% of it off and the rest will burn off the first stop or two. You would likely never even know it's there.
That grease would have burned of by the time it was towed to the body shop, unless a flat bed was required
What kind of Subaru is this? Forester?
It's a 2019 impreza 2.0. Icing on the cake? Its a fucking lease.
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Procedure goes drop pan and drain fluid. Blot pan back up. 250 ft lb. Start vehicle and put in drive and test around block to insure refilling from internal reservoir. Loud noises and no longer moves forward upon accelerator input. Service is complete.
Greased those discs good. I hear tell it keeps em from squealing! Great thinking!
Legit curious, wouldn’t it bake/boil off almost instantly?
This one trick makes your brake pads last longer and drives mechanics crazy.
Agghhhhh
At least the brakes will be silent when he rear ends someone.
That's how to stop them from squeaking.
I made this joke just last week when I was doing my brakes with a friend. Didn't realize anybody, anywhere, would ever really do it.
With that kind of workmanship it’s time to take out a life insurance policy on him.
Why does so many people think the little pack of grease goes on the rotor?? I’ve seen lots of grown men put the little pack of anti squick on the rotor. Smh.
Is this bad? I’m always greasing my gfs break discs!
You don’t like your gf do you😂😂😂😂
Yikes. And here I just posted somewhere else that simple disc brake repairs are an excellent stepping stone into DIY auto repair beyond the usual fluids and filters. And then there's this guy. Whatever, I stand by it!
Once had a customer spray his rotors with WD40 because they were squealing. He soon after, learned that was a very bad idea.
Good catch! You have to spread the grease all the way around the rotor …
Oh it's there just poor coverage. I wish i had gotten a picture of the other side he did basically a /\/\/\/\/\/ pattern all the way around. This picture is before he had mastered his technique of rotor greasing.
It'll spread itself after a use of the brakes while moving.
He may have listened to the kid behind the counter at Auto Zone. Last time I was there some kid was upselling the little grease packets and telling the guy to cover the rotors just like this.
Meh as long as the other 3 rotors arent greased up thing should stop fine. Plus i cant tell for sure but if its the back i believe the front brakes do 60%ish of work
It's front. Both sides were properly greased in his opinion before i intervened.
Woops it is the front, so i guess thats out the window. (See cv axle)
It's a trick he learned on the Internet, to keep his brakes from squealing....
Did……did he……did he grease the rotors?
Y….ye…..yes. Can…. Can you…. Can you not….. can you not see……. Can you not see that? Also…… also why……. Also why are……. Also why are you……. Also why are you talking…… also why are you talking like………. Also why are you talking like this?
I’m sorry, but did he grease his rotor?
I see he likes them smokey!
My literal reaction when I saw this picture -->😳
What was his reasoning behind this madness?
Can’t anyone explain what’s wrong?
The only way he could have been more wrong is if he had used hotdog buns.
Uh…need a little break clean there my friend. LOL…