Yesterday morning we took the motorhome for a test drive to check out the new brakes we put on the front. We hadn't got to the main highway when we knew they weren't fixed....still had the grinding noise. Well, Carl got out of the motorhome to hear which side of the REAR brakes were making the noise. He had no trouble determining it was the right rear. Luckily I had bought two sets of pads from the Ford dealer. These were going to be a bit more difficult than the fronts since we had two wheels per side to pull off. MAN, those things are heavy!
We pulled the right side and immediately saw the damage that had been done to the inside of the rotor. The pad was down to bare metal. There was no way we were going to take the rotor off to have it turned. So we came up with a scheme to 'turn' it ourselves. I took a right angle grinder to the rotor while Carl turned the hub. After about an hour of grinding and turning, we had it pretty smooth except for one shallow groove in the middle. We decided it was good enough. After hitting it with a sander to polish it a bit. we were satisfied it was good.
So Carl could turn the rotor, I had to put the gearshift in Neutral. To shift, you must first depress the brake pedal. Not thinking that the caliper was off, when I depressed the brake, one of the pistons popped out a bit too far. DANG! We struggled with that for about an hour to get the boot back on the piston properly. Finally all was ready to assemble in the reverse order. That side took a little over three hours to do and we were both getting tired. But, we decided to do the other side. We both wanted to git 'er done and not have to get dirty again the next day. We finished the left side in an hour and a half and took it out for a test drive. Everything was GREAT! THANK YOU AGAIN, CARL.....WHAT A FRIEND!
We all slept very well last night.
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