15K miles one Wisconsin salt season, felt heat on all her four rotors, was surprised this vehicle has four wheel disc brakes. All four wheels had pad drag. One at a time, that metal clip on the pad holders was a nice spot for trapping road salt, rust underneath pushing on the pad tips so they stayed partially engaged.
Use a super fine powered wire brush to cleaned off that rust, coated with anti-seize, tips of the pads that engage those clips all rusty, same treatment. Made a huge difference, really took a great effort to hand rotate both rear wheels. But this wasn't the only problem, the rear brake caliper levers were not returning to their home position, good 3/4" distance to the stops. Using my plastic pry bar, removed the rear cover of her center console.
Wasn't sure if this was one of those self adjusting hand brake levers, or adjustable, was adjustable, so loosen that nut until both levers were against their stops. Now the wheels turn effortlessly.
Took it for a test drive on a hilly road, engine was really laboring hard, what kind of gas are you putting in this thing? She told me, couldn't have put worse gas in this vehicle from a near by cut rate station. Told her where to go to get 91 octane ethanol free gas. Lets not get into this, our local ethanol producer, neither state or federal regulated can't even give a proper mix, for all you know, getting 82 octane fuel.
Removed her spark plugs, gaped at over 45 mils, were NGK and first thing I noticed the base of all four of her plugs were coated with a brown orange color, showing poor ceramic seal, to prove this, put them in my spark plug tester, with low pressure were all firing okay, but when I jacked it put to around 100 psi, goodbye spark, could even fill the air leaking. Were also single iridium plugs, ground electrode was naked. As no place in town sells any kind of plug that fits this thing ordered Autolite XP6203 off the net, still waiting for these things to come in.
But with her plugs gaped them at 27 mils and used a high temperature Permatex epoxy to fill that gap between the metal and the ceramic, I know it won't hold, but better than nothing. Also tossed a can of Seafoam, base of her plugs were loaded with black carbon, can only guess what the rest of the engine looks like.
What a difference, according to the net, this thing should do 0-60 in 8.5 seconds, didn't try this, but about par for the course.
Oh, all of her piston side pads were thinner than the outpads, still plenty of meat left, so left them. Just thought I would share this.
Use a super fine powered wire brush to cleaned off that rust, coated with anti-seize, tips of the pads that engage those clips all rusty, same treatment. Made a huge difference, really took a great effort to hand rotate both rear wheels. But this wasn't the only problem, the rear brake caliper levers were not returning to their home position, good 3/4" distance to the stops. Using my plastic pry bar, removed the rear cover of her center console.
Wasn't sure if this was one of those self adjusting hand brake levers, or adjustable, was adjustable, so loosen that nut until both levers were against their stops. Now the wheels turn effortlessly.
Took it for a test drive on a hilly road, engine was really laboring hard, what kind of gas are you putting in this thing? She told me, couldn't have put worse gas in this vehicle from a near by cut rate station. Told her where to go to get 91 octane ethanol free gas. Lets not get into this, our local ethanol producer, neither state or federal regulated can't even give a proper mix, for all you know, getting 82 octane fuel.
Removed her spark plugs, gaped at over 45 mils, were NGK and first thing I noticed the base of all four of her plugs were coated with a brown orange color, showing poor ceramic seal, to prove this, put them in my spark plug tester, with low pressure were all firing okay, but when I jacked it put to around 100 psi, goodbye spark, could even fill the air leaking. Were also single iridium plugs, ground electrode was naked. As no place in town sells any kind of plug that fits this thing ordered Autolite XP6203 off the net, still waiting for these things to come in.
But with her plugs gaped them at 27 mils and used a high temperature Permatex epoxy to fill that gap between the metal and the ceramic, I know it won't hold, but better than nothing. Also tossed a can of Seafoam, base of her plugs were loaded with black carbon, can only guess what the rest of the engine looks like.
What a difference, according to the net, this thing should do 0-60 in 8.5 seconds, didn't try this, but about par for the course.
Oh, all of her piston side pads were thinner than the outpads, still plenty of meat left, so left them. Just thought I would share this.