[Vwdiesel] WE HAVE BRAKES!! and introducing the "Relative Stupidity"Scale

[mikitka]

Glad you got it all figured out. I hate it when it turns out to be something
simple like that but at least it will never be repeated.

Nick


On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 2:35 PM, <dieseltdi at verizon.net> wrote:

> We after messing with the brakes again and again and getting NO brake 
> pressure, I decided to pull off the Scirocco discs and return to the 
> drum brakes that were originally on the Jetta. I made a trip down to 
> the only yard I know that has any MK1s knowing he had an 83 that was 
> pretty intact, pulled the rear brake assemblies and associated 
> hardware (emergency brake cables and a couple of hard lines) and 
> headed home with my wallet $35 lighter.  Stopped at the local 
> Orielly's auto parts and picked up some wheel cylinders and new brake 
> shoes then went home and started the deconstruction.  Managed to get 
> the passenger side done before I ran out of energy and light. So back 
> at it after lunch today.  Well my mechanic son comes over and decides 
> to watch me work (he seems to be good at that) as I removed the 
> driver's side Scirocco stuff.  As I am pulling things off, he wanders 
> out of the garage with the passenger side Scirocco caliper and says, 
> quite casually, "this is the drivers side caliper".  If you installed 
> this on the passenger side then it would be upside down and you would 
> never be able to bleed the system!!!!!!!!!!!  I only pounded my head 
> on the car two or three times but not enough to cause a dent either in my
head or in the car.  I think that ranks about a 9/10 on my relative
stupidity scale.
>  Apparently there are words on the calipers that you should be able to 
> read right side up when they are on the car!!!!!!!!  Oh well, car has 
> new drum brakes, brakes bled, the pedal has pressure and the car stops 
> like it is supposed to.  Just goes to show that if you live long 
> enough, you can really make a fool of yourself!!!!!!!  Oh well, I can 
> now get a paper tag for the car, finish up some things on the inside 
> and get it aligned and inspected.  Anyone else want to share a story 
> of absolute stupidity so I don't feel so all alone?  :^P Hayden
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> "There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there 
> is no party of principle."
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> superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that 
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> every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, 
> every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they 
> may absolutely refuse to move at all."  Alexis de Tocqueville
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