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Re: What Did You do To your Van Today?
wrcsixeight #672611 October 10th 2014 9:13 pm
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Found out why my brakes sucked. For a while now my van has had weak brakes. I finally got the time to check out why. I rebuilt the whole brake system less than two years ago so I was frustrated at the poor braking performance. urns out the self adjuste ron the rear passenger sie drum brake somehow broke off the shoe and was dragging around inside the drum. The end result was the right rear brake wasn't working and the left rear was barely working. Plus the adjuster arm was chewing up the inside of the drum pretty good.

So, $55 for a new drum and adjuster lever later, my van has strong brakes again and goes straight when I brake. Yay!


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Re: What Did You do To your Van Today?
wrcsixeight #672615 October 10th 2014 9:44 pm
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I had a star adjuster rattling around in one of my drums a few years back. The "professional" who did my rear brakes installed them on the wrong side and they self loosened. Inspired me to figure out how to do it myself.

Today I changed my oil at the 1 year mark. Mileage, only 1000 miles. Probably a waste of good oil, but I'm prepping for a trip out of 'too cool to acknowledge you' land.

Ducking fouchebags.

Re: What Did You do To your Van Today?
wrcsixeight #672629 October 11th 2014 1:46 am
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What ticks me off is I can't blame anyone but myself. I am pretty sure I put the spring that hooks to the adjuster in the wrong hole on the brake shoe so the adjuster was loose and fell out. D'OH!


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Re: What Did You do To your Van Today?
wrcsixeight #672630 October 11th 2014 2:57 am
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What's important now, is you fixed it, and if you did made a mistake, you'll not repeat this mistake.








Re: What Did You do To your Van Today?
wrcsixeight #672811 October 13th 2014 1:44 am
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Used it as an example of how NOT to paint a grille.
lol


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Re: What Did You do To your Van Today?
Rusty Pancelode #673574 October 25th 2014 4:14 am
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Originally Posted by Rusty_Pancelode
Used it as an example of how NOT to paint a grille.
lol


Did it not go well? ha


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Re: What Did You do To your Van Today?
wrcsixeight #673599 October 25th 2014 4:35 pm
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Took it Camping,,, Finally

Decided to take it out on a shake down run.. Since it's still in the 90's here, had to go to the Colorado river to keep cool.

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About 50 miles round trip in the dirt..

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baby wild burro trying to be invisible

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Everything worked great, so it's time to plan more trips..


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Re: What Did You do To your Van Today?
wrcsixeight #673630 October 26th 2014 2:22 pm
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Put it in winter storage for the year.... frown

Re: What Did You do To your Van Today?
wrcsixeight #673651 October 26th 2014 7:13 pm
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Completed wire tracing and inspections and cleanings and put her all back together!

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