Sunday, July 1, 2012
2002 Ford Focus (Pam & Nate)
Pam & Nate's 2002 Ford Focus. Couple summers ago I had the thrill and nightmare of doing a brake job on the front wheels. We decided that the rotors were shot and, on the hottest day of the summer, I beat on them for 4 or 5 hours with a 4-lb hammer, unable to budge them. Finally I got wise and went into Green Bay to O'Reilly's and borrowed, at no cost, a gear puller. I reversed the pulling tongs so that they were wide enough to clamp around the rotors, and put the fulcrum pin on the spindle. A few turns with the wrench (after soaking also with KrudBuster) and pop, off they came. That being accomplished, the rest was a whiz and the new rotors and pads have lasted a couple years already with no problems at all.
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Over the July 4th weekend joint birthday party for Elsa and Avery, Nate asked if I had the air conditioning fluid and charging hoses, which I did. When we lifted the hood we COULD NOT FIND either the compressor or the pressure tank or nipple to charge with. I was ready to give it up, but Nate Goggled' it and found, amazingly, that you have to take off the passenger side front wheel splash guard! This exposes the pressure tank, which has a nipple and plastic cover at the top. Sure enough, the fitting worked, and we put in one can of R134a (from FL since Wisconsin is the last state, apparently, to be progressive enough to let it be sold.) which brought the pressure up good and started the compressor motor lugging down. So I put in a can of sealant as well and everything started working properly. We'll see if it continues to work properly--if not there is a big leak somewhere. So far so good.
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