1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

Been a minute. Hope you filthy animals are living life to the fullest

 

Got the battery recharged and tested so it’s still good for the Impala. No AC is my big concern.

Is it typical of 17 year old GM cars to lose refrigerant at 88k miles when sitting idle for 9 months? I remember it was working fine last year. I’ll have to hook up a gauge on the low pressure port to check.

 

Are you mixing Rube Goldberg machine and Rubik's cube puzzle? I like it.

 

Absolutely talking shoes. I'm old enough to remember when that's pretty much the only thing trucks came with in the rear. To your question about why I'm messing with them, well, dumbass award for me again. They were going on 7 years front and back and silly me just figured it was about time rather than actually LOOKING. What a novel idea. I did all of this prior to discovering this lovely forum and purchased the whole works from, you guessed it, Amazon! I bought Bendix which used to be a quality brand. Went nuts and bought the whole works - new rotors and pads along with shoes and drums. From what I'm seeing, it's hardly worth turning a drum or rotor anymore. Am I mistaken? I went with Bendix Priority1 CFC976 Ceramic pads up front and Bendix Premium 764 organic in the rear. Probably should have gone ceramic all the way around, but, hey, I'm rusty as hell.

I'm going to have to open up the rears again. The driver side rear was absent the little metal tab that fits into the adjuster. Yes, another dumbass award. I looked right at it, said "shit", and put it back together anyhow. Now, not surprisingly, the shoes are not auto-adjusting and the emergency brake is just almost to the floor. Since I'm opening it up again, guessing a definite YES on the Toyota shoes?

Thanks. Some of us are slow learners. Have to shoot ourselves in the foot a few times before we get it.

p.s. TOTALLY agree with hassle factor. Looking at Toyota gear just didn't occur to me....

 

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