Started on the brakes today and began with flushing most of the old fluid out. I will continue to flush it with each caliper I put on and then flush it again a final time for bleeding. Some progress was made... I completed the first rear caliper/rotor/hose/pads easily enough. Then I went to do the second one and - oops. Second rotor was wrong. I hadn't checked them all. Oh well. New one should be in Friday.

Moving on to the fronts... I was stuck with the top bolts on both calipers but after two days of PB Blastering they came off tonight. However, I need to replace one of the bolts due to some rounding.

That's as far as I got when I became distracted... I found quite a bit of water in the cabin unfortunately. We just had some serious 24 hour rain and there is a decent leak somewhere. Water in the drivers front, passenger front and some in the passenger rear. I suspect it's from one of the air intakes on the hood, but impossible to say for sure right now. Bit of a bummer, going to be somewhat difficult to track that one down this time of year. I've pulled all the carpets out that were easily accessible in the cabin. They were coming out for cleaning anyways so I'll just need to find that leak before I put them back in!

All my parts are here though, minus that one rotor so I'm hoping to be getting her mobile again by the end of the weekend... we'll see if I make it.

If the windshield seal is original, I'd put my money there.

I just had a new windshield put in myself, and I asked them for a new seal, which they did NOT do. So that too is on my To Do list.

Gotcha, I'll keep that in mind.

I'm pretty bummed about the water; I don't like dealing with water leaks! (Who does!)

After the brakes/alternator I was planning to give her a pressure wash including the engine bay with a fun afternoon of degreasing. So I'll add in trying to find the leak with the hose, see if I can narrow it down some. Hopefully get to that this weekend.

I'm still betting on the fresh air intakes, will also check behind the battery as I hear that's a semi common spot. I found one of the plug holes in the rear passenger open and a little rusty, but I don't see water coming up from that hole.

Based on where the water is pooling I'm thinking it's coming in from the front of the car- somewhere - leaking on either side of the front (drivers and passenger) and then following the electrical lines back into the rear passenger.

Seems like I had more water in the rear than I did the front, and my WS seal was leaking too.

check sunroof drains to.
also common point of leaks.

Louis

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Thanks for the tip, any idea where might those drain out?

Alternator progress:
Removed the pulley from the old alternator and mounted it to the new alternator.

Brakes:
Attempted to free the front rotors from the hub with my new electric impact wrench (350 ft lb supposedly) and it didn't stand a chance. The 10mm hex bit I have though is 3/4" so I did have to convert it to 1/2" for the impact wrench, but I don't think that made much if any difference.

I don't think I'm going to bother trying to get them off with a breaker bar, just going to take them down to a shop with a stronger impact wrench.

Leak:
Did some light weight mods yo.

More water in the car today. It's getting trapped underneath the sound deadening and just sitting there. So I removed essentially all of the drivers front, passenger front and right rear sound deadening. Drivers side passenger and the boot are dry as a bone, so that's good.

Still no idea where it's coming from. Hopefully figure out where the leak is this weekend when I have day light.


Not sure I will have her running by Sunday like I had hoped, but still possible. I put in about 4.5 hours on her tonight.

Tomorrow I shall take pictures during the day- let you all in on the fun.

I have removed many a rotor from the hub by bolting it to a wheel, and using the hex socket on a breaker bar. It works every time......Rich

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I snapped the head off my 1/2 breaker bar recently =/

Guess I need to go grab another one.

time to upgrade to 3/4"?

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Whoops. I had 1/2 and 3/4 swapped in my head. It was a 3/4".

you broke the head off a 3/4" breaker bar???

NFW!!!

I've put them on honda 36mm sockets with the car locked in place, with a 6' cheater bar on the end of the 3/4" breaker bar and JUMPED up and down on it, and did not hurt the bar... this is after destroying 3, count them THREE 1/2" bars...

I cannot imagine the force needed to break a 3/4" breaker bar....

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Lol. I think too much credit is being placed on me and not enough on $20 home depot breaker bars!

I was torquing axle nuts on the Honduh up to an estimated 250 ft lb (well beyond my 1/2" and 3/4" torque wrenches can go) and as I was finishing- snap-o-la.

Might have been Harbor Freight now that I think about it...

EDIT: Confusing 1/4", 1/2" and 3/4". It was a 1/2" breaker bar!

HF, more than likely. BTDT, got stitches to prove it. ;-).

MS has a good video on the sunroof, he can walk you through that. Get ready for sticker-shock on the cost of the seals... That is where another of my leaks popped up, so I decided to just move from OK to CO to deal with it. :-)

Really really hoping it's not the sunroof!

I'll dig up that video and check it out. Hoping finding the leak with the hose this weekend won't be too much trouble.