Turkey Day!

Adina, Ben, and Adillia came down from Alaska and joined us for Thanksgiving!

After dinner we spent the rest of the day visiting, excep for Dennis. He tried very hard to get a nap in.

Oops! The things I have to do.

This was a hard thing for me to do. I have to scrape the University lalbels of the vehicles before they are sold, but this is one that my wife is bidding on and it felt like vandalizm.

One bloody knuckle and one cracked socke

One bloody knuckle and one cracked socket later, I'm getting it.

Defective 14mm Craftsmen socket.

I had to pull the hub apart to get off the old rotor. I tried to use this defective 14mm Craftsmen socket. 

All this for ten points!

All this for ten points!

Coffee at Bucers.

Pinini

Replacing brakes.

I put my Toyota up on blocks today. I just replaced my brake pads last fall. I didn't think they could possible need replacing. But last week I told Michelle to go ahead and use it and about ten minutes later she called me to come get her.

It seems she got down towm and the brakes went completely out.  Turns out that the rotor was dad enough that it ate up a (just one) pad. So I am back at it, taking it all apart.

 

I'm using a 17mm wrench on the bolts holding the disk pads in place. 

Next I had to order a rotor.

RE: Where is this?

I took this picture up on Shelby Ave. over looking our house. Out for a ride after running down to the coffee shop.

Out on the Xtreme XB-600.

Getting rained on, but what fun!