Well it is a balmy 24 degrees here in chicago, and nothing is more fun than working on a car in this weather. Now to the why. Why does it take longer to change the damn brake pads then it did to replace the axle shafts. I only did the fronts and that took me like 2 hours where the shafts took me a little over an hour. (oh yeah and i tried to lift the car from the frame, um yeah not a good idea. those damn things are rusted threw.) any ways hopefully nothing else needs to be replaced before warmer weather comes around.

 

2 hours???!!??! What the heck happened there?

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rusty frame = bad

you sure it was frame?

 

It should only take about 20 minutes, tops, per side, on either front OR rear, to replace the pads...

I pulled, rebuilt, and replaced BOTH of my front calipers , plus the pads, AND rotors in about an hour and a half...

the rears were another story, as they are a bloody nightmare for reassembly during a rebuild...