scottystills
1/2 ton status
Interesting morning today... Decided to take the K5 to work, was heading up the freeway and just before my exit steering went a little nuts. Stayed in my lane, recovered it, just assumed I caught a bad rut in the pavement and it pulled me like tends to happen with the wide tires.
Got to my exit, tapped the brakes and the pedal goes to the floor. A little double footing and my rear brakes lock up, drags me to a slow and I get it off onto the grass side of the ramp. Sigh of relief, check my undies, call AMA for a tow. I figured I blew a brake line, but they're all fairly new and either hard lines or braided. Took a quick look around, no fluid leaking.
Got the tow, got er home, started walking away and glanced back, this catches my eye on the front DS.
My new guess, lost spindle nuts, trashed bearing, broken spindle, combination of... I haven't even had the caliper off since I swapped these axles in, nevermind checked the bearings etc, so all news to me. Caliper being the safety holding my rotor and keeping my wheel on! No brake pads anymore, so I'm guessing they got kicked and the pedal goes to the floor when the piston has nothing to push on. Fun stuff.
Unfortunately in the middle of pouring a garage pad and putting up the new shop, so had the tow leave it on the street in front of the house, won't ge a chance to look at it for a couple weeks still.
Any guesses what I'm going to find when I rip that apart?
Second question: I always do a solid walk around after I wheel before i hit the highway. After the last ride this wasn't loose and everything checked out. Any way to see something like this coming in the future so I don't have to buy more underwear?
Got to my exit, tapped the brakes and the pedal goes to the floor. A little double footing and my rear brakes lock up, drags me to a slow and I get it off onto the grass side of the ramp. Sigh of relief, check my undies, call AMA for a tow. I figured I blew a brake line, but they're all fairly new and either hard lines or braided. Took a quick look around, no fluid leaking.
Got the tow, got er home, started walking away and glanced back, this catches my eye on the front DS.
My new guess, lost spindle nuts, trashed bearing, broken spindle, combination of... I haven't even had the caliper off since I swapped these axles in, nevermind checked the bearings etc, so all news to me. Caliper being the safety holding my rotor and keeping my wheel on! No brake pads anymore, so I'm guessing they got kicked and the pedal goes to the floor when the piston has nothing to push on. Fun stuff.
Unfortunately in the middle of pouring a garage pad and putting up the new shop, so had the tow leave it on the street in front of the house, won't ge a chance to look at it for a couple weeks still.
Any guesses what I'm going to find when I rip that apart?
Second question: I always do a solid walk around after I wheel before i hit the highway. After the last ride this wasn't loose and everything checked out. Any way to see something like this coming in the future so I don't have to buy more underwear?
Thankfully I made it home in one piece. 
