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[Dr. Z]

Came to do my rear brakes yesterday as the chap that sold me the car had let them wear down a fair bit.

So, a hub puller, lump mallet and two crowbars later, I managed to get one side off. Everything about this car is backwards - it seems there is no adjustment possible to back off the shoes from the outside - crackers!

Anyway, after a few hours of bashing they came off, with the wheel bearing disintegrating in the process :mad:. A trip to the local scrapyards turned up nothing so it was off to the motor factors to be relieved of £40 for a new one.

Changing the handbrake cable was also a ridiculous amount of effort involving removing the exhaust heatshields and a lot of swearing. In the process, I managed to send my brakeless car through a neighbour's fence, damaging my rear bumper Not *too* bad though, I suppose.

To top off the joys of the past 2 days, I have a buckled alloy to sort out, a completely gnarled up electric window motor and a really bad case of sunburn!

Damn cars!! :mad: