dr bob

Follow-up to Gray Guy's request for S4 brake job support. He'll be here Wednesday for a bit of brake work. Scheduled are pads, sensors, rotors, fluid flush. Plus an RMB install. Hope to do it all in the morning, since it starts to get a little toasty if we go much beyond lunchtime. If you are in the area and available, and want to watch/help/needle/participate/badger/heckle/learn, and haven't been here before, PM me your e-mail add'y and I'll forward local directions.

I keep diet Pepsi and water in the garage fridge, so if your tastes go in another direction plan to fill your pockets with your favorite before you get here. We'll probably scare up something for lunch, either from the grill here or at a local eatery depending on group desires. I have center-cut hot dogs and more!

Grey Guy

Dr. Bob, thanks for being so gracious. Looking forward to it.

Lopez

you guys always schedule these things when I'm on the road, Bob. Stuck in Florida this time

dr bob

Yeah Chris, stuck in the other Happiest Place and still...

Getting things done mid-week is a bit of a requirement for this one. My weekend and much of the midweek schedule is packed tight this month. Ed had the time available and I'm generally home-officing during the summers anyway. Karen is in LV for an IRS seminar for a few days. So it's a good fit. Still, have a couple proposals to package and a local (gasp!) project to work on. No boredom here yet. It just seems like weekends are the times when other people don't have to work I guess.

Rob Edwards

Would love to make it but now I'm catching up on all the stuff I haven't been paying attention to the last three weeks. Have fun, guys!

dr bob

Things that others have taken for 'granted'?

Grey Guy

Dr. Bob allowed me to come to his home and his nice clean garage and to do a brake job on my car. The man's patience is beyond words.
A few hour job turned into several and not once did he threaten me directly (my wife and kids weren't so lucky)
Thank you Bob. My children and their children will hear of your generosity.

dr bob

A normally one- to maybe two-hour session was stretched to four-plus so Ed could experience the joy of changing out brake pads and rotors. We had a few glitches around wear sensors and the way they fit into the new pads. That will get e separate how-to thread. New RMB was installed to the owner's great satisfaction. My flush tool had an unepected leak in the MC cap and is being resealed, so no fluid flush although the car can use it for sure-- brown fluid syndrome is the telltale. So we got almost all the important stuff, including getting rid of the squeals that were shared by the old pads.

Ed, it was a pleasure. The patience part was only resisting grabbing the parts and tools and rocketing through the project in too big a hurry. You are now ready to take on S4 brakes, grasshopper!