[V8] UFO invasion!

[Ed Kellock]

page 76 of the CarFood Cookbook.

On 9/13/05, Mike Arman <armanmik at earthlink.net> wrote: 
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> Yesterday, I noticed a new and truly strange noise - sort of a
> woooooooo, WOOOOO, WOOOOO!!! coming from the brakes. Sounded like the
> sound track from a very bad SF movie. Seemed to stop after a few
> blocks, then start up again after stopping and restarting the car.
> 
> Looked around, thinking this perhaps was a sticking rear brake
> caliper - and I did smell the all-too-familiar odor of something toasted.
> 
> Stuck my finger in between the spokes of the rear wheels and touched
> the calipers - nothing hot there, lets go look up front.
> 
> Right front brake had something very, very dead stuck in it - fur,
> vertebrae, not much else, dried out and toasted well. Something (a
> rodent?) met its doom inside the UFO brake drum and was squashed and
> toasted by the operation of the brakes. Yuck. I'm going to have to
> take the wheel and the rotor off (later) to determine if all the
> remains are gone . . .
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> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Mike Arman
> 90 V8, not just a car, an ADVENTURE!
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