Thursday, April 26, 2007

I can see and stop

Well it's taken me a little bit to post this but the new headlights are in and boy are they fantastic. I love having white light and not the yellowish halogen light. The hardest part was finding a good place for the ballasts, which was to be expected.
I also managed to fix my brakes so they work now. This was the first time where I was replacing a caliper and pads, and I was very pleased with how it turned out.

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Brakes

Recently I've been all psyched about putting in my new gauges and headlights, but I have come up with a more pressing matter. After some racing over spring break I noticed a squeaking coming from my front passenger side wheel. I figured I had finally damaged the bearing significantly. I then noticed that this squeak would disappear when I used my brakes. I then started to think that maybe I got something stuck somewhere by the rotor. Well today ladies and gents I figured it out. I went for a drive and the squeaking was the worst its ever been. When I went to look at the wheel I noticed that it was noticeably hotter than the others and was also covered with a significant amount of brake dust that the other wheels didn't have. It is now obvious that the caliper is sticking. Just another thing I have to replace this week.