After getting the brake work done on the Tracker I started another little task that is connects to one of the other tasks. I started moving pallets over to the "work site" the area by the storage trailer, in order to break them down. I cut the nails using the reciprocating saw and a fine tooth blade so I can cut the nails and separate the pickets from the pallets before switching over to a regular wood blade so I can cut the main boards into smaller pieces which will then be stacked next to the fuel shed in order to serve as fire wood for outside can fires while working. The reason for separating the pallets is to be able to use the pickets as siding on the frame of the fuel shed in lieu of regular plywood. It would give the fuel shed a more homey look on the outside versus just plain plywood. I managed to get several pallets broken down over the course of one session outside. This will kill two birds with one stone as it'll allow me to clear the pallets from the back of the lot while acquiring building materials to finish another project.
Things were short lived with the Tracker as the ole lady still had issues with the brakes on the Tracker as well as with the AC cutting out periodically. Not sure what to expect since all the rear brake shit was replaced. Well this morning I pulled the rear wheels off to check out the hardware and found everything was kosher, wheel cylinders weren't leaking and all internal hardware was still in place. My next move was to try and bleed the rear brakes again to see if there was more air in the system. It appeared that there was some air in the lines but nothing significant. I even tried to bleed the front brakes to see if maybe there was some air there. Left front was fine, the right front bleeder valve wouldn't even open, frozen piece of shit. I ceased trying to open the valve because it would be just like it that the valve will break then I'm stuck having to replace the whole caliper which would put the car down for the day and end up costing even more money. I figured there wasn't any air in the right side since the left side was fine anyway. The last thing to try was the first thing I was going to try in the beginning, which was change out the master cylinder. I actually bought this thing in the beginning then put it on the shelf when it looked like things wasn't getting worse, fucking hindsight.... I did a crappy bleed of the master cylinder, really I just poured fluid in the chamber and opened the caps on the outputs letting gravity do its job of pulling oil through the passages. After getting oil coming out through all passages I went ahead and pulled the old unit and swapped in the new unit. I bled the rear brakes again and the left wheel and didn't get much of any air out of any of them. After doing a test drive it was determined that the brakes were better than ever before. Lastly I looked at the pair of AC fuse holders and had already figured that the only thing that would be allowing the AC to cut off is the crimp terminal on the first fuse holder. Those things are touchy at best and shitty at worst, having bad connectivity issues due to vibrations and even heat, as would be the case in an engine compartment. I cut the terminal off and put some heat shrink tubing on before soldering the wires together. With that the AC system is back online with no flake out issues. With that, I used the remaining time to move a bunch of pallets back to the work site so I can continue with what I was doing before all this car horseshit started. I was able to move a good little stack of pallets that have some good solid pickets on them so for the next day I'll be able to stack up a good little batch of pickets and of course continue to build up my firewood pile and clear the area of old pallets too. The work continues.....
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