Lightning Performance
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I'm not much in a fun mood and I already have several train wrecks in my lap now, so save it for another thread, Please... and tia IF you don't give a hiddy hoe GFY then please again, let it be, k.
Pretty pissed about may things today. Great way to start my week. *s-word is piling up and TN looks like a bust for me this year. I do three things a year for myself and this is the third one. Figure it out.
Well, my rear brake line went that I had replaced by a "friend" hum. He replaced half the brake line from front to back I now find out, the lazy baaastard. The front half was worse on the top than the portion I saw that came out from behind the fuel tank that pin-holed last year. Last time he ever touches anything of ours. This will be the second safety issue. These are things you don't *f-word up or people can die. Are we clear? Good. He worked on my wife's car before and left bolts out I found later. Not to mention other *s-word and swamped one of my boats years ago. He left the drain plug in for four days of rain and the cover off in his yard on the trailer. He needed my spare starter out of the cabin so I got three feet of water in it then It froze. Found it three weeks later with a foot of ice on the top. Great guy. My mistake for thinking he was a good guy and just made a mistake with the boat. He don't give two *s-words I figured out after getting *f-worded again on this mechanical work. He did this job just before the wife's car he *f-worded up at his shop. Plus Just got burned on a few other deals and then ignored after complaining. You men are my last resort to fix this prick or go find a new repair shop soon.
This might sounds weird but, I don't have any friends to ask. Don't have any friends anymore. They became too expensive, full of *s-word, do me wrong on work, lie or don't ever want to pay for anything. Or, the best ones always call with some ridiculous favor that will cost me a day or more labor and some money. I have given them up and moved on, for real. They just used me. Just stopped contacting them. None have called this year or came around when I stopped the "favors" Some have disappeared more than two years ago. Many owe me money. They all made deals with me and owe time but they never showed up. It is just me and the misses now working on the kitchen and keeping everything going. We do all our own everything now. We never call anyone for anything. It's rough but it work's for us most times. Rant done.
Replaced the rotten line laying in the drive at home and bleed them after getting the brake light out and took a ride to give the ABS a few heart attacks. Bleed it again. Very little air in the ABS pump that time. Had some air in the left rear, just a spit or two of air. The brakes have gotten nothing but worse. Bleed a pint through it with my wife, she knows how to foot bleed brakes better than most men. I did every flare nut on the rear end all the way to the front and the wheel cylinders, again and again. They just get worse but no air. Pulled the rear apart and went over everything. Good to go just had froze adjusters like always. The volume is there but I don't have a test gauge anymore, stolen, to use at the wheel. I would not know where it should be with ABS anyway. Strange thing my brakes have always sucked since he fixed it last time. I said something and the response was, "they just need to break in right." I thought that is BS! Dismissed it as he was drunk at the time as being a wise ass. I/we all know better.
Anyway.... I find no wear on the rear brakes with over 12K driving and a little light towing. I'm sure under a heavy load it would have shown up. I just figured these trucks went through front brakes ever fifteen to twenty thousand just like the older ones did. I have replaced the front pads four five times in a hundred thousand miles. Rear brakes once. It has been that way since I bought it. Now they are spongy and really suck. Not much rear brakes. Emergency brake has a little more bite that the hydros. I'm no novice here and only had him do the line because I was replacing everything on the front but calipers that day. The next week the rear brakes all got replaced with new shoes and wheel cylinders. At that time they felt about the same before and after wheel cylinders, shoes and drums. I'm just frustrated and had a really bad end of last week and weekend. My bright spot was a package in the mail from Redbull
Spent a few hours on the net and youtube to learn nothing. My question is do the ABS computers cross the fluid like an older proportion valve does?
I played hell trying to find a schematic for the ABS valve block or piston type/shape or piston ports. I know It has one or two in there. Mine is the single motor unit with a valve body. No added valves on the truck but maybe residual valves and they can only cause brake drag. Bled the master again and the pressure is the same as the front half by eye. It has plenty there. This ain't my first rodeo, please try to remember that but I am by far no expert on ABS systems. On regular brakes I'm pretty *f-wordin' good! Fixed more problems with cross-bread brake parts from different cars and AM companies in street rods these men have created than you could ever *f-wording imagine in your wildest dreams, period. Most times it was a booster sizing problem, pedal leverage ratios to the master cylinder rod, wrong or bad valves, wrong size lines and or components and the mother of all brake *f-word ups, air in the system. Bleed cars on a rollback to get them right. See no need for that here. Found no air but everything tells me there must be air in the rear or possibly something I know not what to look for. No lit dash board Brake or ABS lights. Everything seems to be in fine working order including the ABS in action on gravel or payment. Low and mushy pedal with poor rear bias imo.
Hope that was understandable gibberish. It took a while to edit.
Anything common has be covered.
I'll check in periodically today. No rest for the wicked...
I'm not much in a fun mood and I already have several train wrecks in my lap now, so save it for another thread, Please... and tia IF you don't give a hiddy hoe GFY then please again, let it be, k.
Pretty pissed about may things today. Great way to start my week. *s-word is piling up and TN looks like a bust for me this year. I do three things a year for myself and this is the third one. Figure it out.
Well, my rear brake line went that I had replaced by a "friend" hum. He replaced half the brake line from front to back I now find out, the lazy baaastard. The front half was worse on the top than the portion I saw that came out from behind the fuel tank that pin-holed last year. Last time he ever touches anything of ours. This will be the second safety issue. These are things you don't *f-word up or people can die. Are we clear? Good. He worked on my wife's car before and left bolts out I found later. Not to mention other *s-word and swamped one of my boats years ago. He left the drain plug in for four days of rain and the cover off in his yard on the trailer. He needed my spare starter out of the cabin so I got three feet of water in it then It froze. Found it three weeks later with a foot of ice on the top. Great guy. My mistake for thinking he was a good guy and just made a mistake with the boat. He don't give two *s-words I figured out after getting *f-worded again on this mechanical work. He did this job just before the wife's car he *f-worded up at his shop. Plus Just got burned on a few other deals and then ignored after complaining. You men are my last resort to fix this prick or go find a new repair shop soon.
This might sounds weird but, I don't have any friends to ask. Don't have any friends anymore. They became too expensive, full of *s-word, do me wrong on work, lie or don't ever want to pay for anything. Or, the best ones always call with some ridiculous favor that will cost me a day or more labor and some money. I have given them up and moved on, for real. They just used me. Just stopped contacting them. None have called this year or came around when I stopped the "favors" Some have disappeared more than two years ago. Many owe me money. They all made deals with me and owe time but they never showed up. It is just me and the misses now working on the kitchen and keeping everything going. We do all our own everything now. We never call anyone for anything. It's rough but it work's for us most times. Rant done.
Replaced the rotten line laying in the drive at home and bleed them after getting the brake light out and took a ride to give the ABS a few heart attacks. Bleed it again. Very little air in the ABS pump that time. Had some air in the left rear, just a spit or two of air. The brakes have gotten nothing but worse. Bleed a pint through it with my wife, she knows how to foot bleed brakes better than most men. I did every flare nut on the rear end all the way to the front and the wheel cylinders, again and again. They just get worse but no air. Pulled the rear apart and went over everything. Good to go just had froze adjusters like always. The volume is there but I don't have a test gauge anymore, stolen, to use at the wheel. I would not know where it should be with ABS anyway. Strange thing my brakes have always sucked since he fixed it last time. I said something and the response was, "they just need to break in right." I thought that is BS! Dismissed it as he was drunk at the time as being a wise ass. I/we all know better.
Anyway.... I find no wear on the rear brakes with over 12K driving and a little light towing. I'm sure under a heavy load it would have shown up. I just figured these trucks went through front brakes ever fifteen to twenty thousand just like the older ones did. I have replaced the front pads four five times in a hundred thousand miles. Rear brakes once. It has been that way since I bought it. Now they are spongy and really suck. Not much rear brakes. Emergency brake has a little more bite that the hydros. I'm no novice here and only had him do the line because I was replacing everything on the front but calipers that day. The next week the rear brakes all got replaced with new shoes and wheel cylinders. At that time they felt about the same before and after wheel cylinders, shoes and drums. I'm just frustrated and had a really bad end of last week and weekend. My bright spot was a package in the mail from Redbull
Spent a few hours on the net and youtube to learn nothing. My question is do the ABS computers cross the fluid like an older proportion valve does?
I played hell trying to find a schematic for the ABS valve block or piston type/shape or piston ports. I know It has one or two in there. Mine is the single motor unit with a valve body. No added valves on the truck but maybe residual valves and they can only cause brake drag. Bled the master again and the pressure is the same as the front half by eye. It has plenty there. This ain't my first rodeo, please try to remember that but I am by far no expert on ABS systems. On regular brakes I'm pretty *f-wordin' good! Fixed more problems with cross-bread brake parts from different cars and AM companies in street rods these men have created than you could ever *f-wording imagine in your wildest dreams, period. Most times it was a booster sizing problem, pedal leverage ratios to the master cylinder rod, wrong or bad valves, wrong size lines and or components and the mother of all brake *f-word ups, air in the system. Bleed cars on a rollback to get them right. See no need for that here. Found no air but everything tells me there must be air in the rear or possibly something I know not what to look for. No lit dash board Brake or ABS lights. Everything seems to be in fine working order including the ABS in action on gravel or payment. Low and mushy pedal with poor rear bias imo.
Hope that was understandable gibberish. It took a while to edit.
Anything common has be covered.
I'll check in periodically today. No rest for the wicked...