[BaadAssGremlins] 75 Gremlin Brake Job

["David G." <servermaster13@xxxx>]

Well, this past weekend my Dad and I bent up and
installed some new rear brake lines for his 75 X.
About a month or two ago he got in the car to go to
the Deli and when he stepped on the brake and put it
in gear the pedal went to the floor.. he quickly got
it back in park, shut it down, and checked for fluid.
Wasn't hard to spot the huge puddle under the left
rear of the car. Turns out that day he was planning to
replce the heater core in his car as well. His leaks
and when we take it out on a cold night, the windows
instantly fog up and we need to open windows and wipe
as fast as possible with napkins, as well as turn the
heat off, so it gets a little cool in the car. But he
got the tubes and fittings he needed to do the brakes,
and after a few busy weekends we had time to bend them
to shape. I must say he did an impressive job. If I
had just walked in and saw them done, I probably
wouldn't have thought much of it, but in this case I
had not only watched, I got to help. It truly is an
art. Sunday we got to put them in. I didn't get up
until about 12, so already it was somewhat of a late
start, as it gets cold and dark here fast. A neighbor
from up the street came down to talk to us about our
house and the renovations we had done to it, so that
sort of held us up. We got out and started setting up
shop(in the street, the donohue is on the trailer in
the driveway and we don't have much better of a work
area available, like a garage, as the trailer blocks
the entrance, and there is a 70 jav sst inside anyway)
and got to work. It took us about 4 hours, maybe 4 and
a half with the test drive. It was dark when we
finished, as we were going to just leave it and finish
it another weekend as it was getting too cold and
dangerous to really lie around holding cold wrenches
on the cold ground on a dark busy street. We however
pushed on, we only needed to bleed and test at that
point. We finally finished, I cleaned up and he
grabbed the keys. We got to the end of the street and
by the time we turned the corner the windsheild was
instantly fogged up due to that pesky heater core. We
proceded to follow the fogwindow ritual of ours and
then got off to a nice start to the beach down the
road. We also came to a nice stop! That's good! You
can however feel the rust on the rotors when you stop,
as I know its not the brakes that make the car pull.
We adjusted them the best we could and it could only
really be the rotors at this point, not too worried
about it though. Next spring will bring around the
heater core project and a tune up. Hopefully it WON'T
bring bondoing projects, as the car is starting to
rust on the bottoms of the doors and around some of
the wheel wells(around the top by the fenders) and the
thing is in need of another paint job. Well, thats my
weekend work story. -Dave

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D.G. 713

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