Wrenching depression

[BubbaMeetze]

Here you go, Pandy's already absolved me of my sin so...

Last weekend or so with the weather getting better here in South Carolina, I decided to finish up the front brakes on the 90 rebuild. After cleaning, repainting, and rebuilding my calipers  and master cylinders front and rear, it was time to fill 'er up, bleed them and move on to the next task to get this baby rolling.

I was so proud of the Galfer SS lines and my ebay skills a getting them. They really look good with all the new paint. "Let's do the front end first", I said.

Before cinching down the banjo bolt to seal the copper washers, I decided that the angle of the banjo was a little off for the line drape. "I'll just bend it a little to make the lay better." <fade in ominous music>

Using my best, large adjustable joint pliers, I managed to change the angle to nearly 0 degrees. Seeing that was easy enough, I tempted fate for just a little more angle. <music reaching crescendo>

"CLICK" went the interface of the banjo neck to the line crimp.....  "Damn!" said Doug holding the line still in the pliers.

$60 worth of BRAND NEW Galfer line rendered useless. <music fades...> The sucker broke in two. Damn.

Well, at least the banjo bolt is new and the copper washers are uncrushed. 

Did you get a caliper rebuild kit for the GS?  or does one just have to get the parts individual from suzuki.  I was looking online for a caliper rebuild kit for the GS500 but no luck so far.

[Egaeus]

I've got a good one since the thread was resurrected.  When I was 16 working on my first car, I checked my power steering fluid.  It was a bit low.  I didn't have any, and so I put brake fluid in it.  Hydraulic fluid is hydraulic fluid, right?  Wrong.  It ate through the seals and would dump a full reservoir of fluid in about 90 minutes.

[CirclesCenter]

How about this.

I did my fork seals and ended up porking it up, the seals were on right (so I thought) but I had TOTALLY porked the fluid level.

So I took it to a shop and had them pull it apart, and instead of "wasting" 20 bucks I had them reuse the ones I had put on two weeks ago.

Now I have to take it and have it done all over again. Why? Because I was too cheap to spend twenty bucks.

f%$k me.

[Alphamazing]

Ah jeeze people. Way to revive my crappy thread!

Thankfully I've avoided such wrenching depressing as of late, although the front right end of my car makes a chattering noise over bumps. I never replaced any parts after my incident with the curb, so I'm thinking something is loose. I'm going to pull it apart and check the torque everywhere sometime soon. I never drive the car anymore though, so this might be a while! 

[WildBlue]

Don't even get me started on my Ford.

Well, if it's a Ford, what did you expect...?

[natedawg120]

I was joking about the hammering anyway...  It's a lot harder than you think to do that...  You need a really heavy mallet and a lot of skill to pull it off...  (and it might weaken the part).

I wish I had before/after pics of the bumper on my Exploder (after the wife got to it).  After I spent 4 hours hitting it, it went from "DAMN!" to "That sucks."   And the wife said, "OMG WOW!!!  It looks sooooooooooo much better.  You can hardly tell!!!"

:laugh:Thats funny cause one of my friends, female, went from driving an 93 civic hatchback to a 89 Buick Century.  She backed out and another lady backed into the rear of her car and put this real big eye sore in it.  I pulled the carpet and busted out the heavy rubber mallet and beat the hell out of the rear quarter panel untill it looked pretty much like what you described.  She said the same dang thing too   At least it wasn't mine....