Definitely want to hear how it goes. $40 is a hell of a deal!

 

I had one years ago and I used it for 14 & 15" tires. It was pure frustration. I couldn't imagine using it on a modern Low Pro tire. Sidewalls and inner bandings are so much stiffer on modern tires than they used to be.

 

Wouldn't even try.

 

Rain-x FTW.

I repaired 4/5 attempted chips today. The fifth had its little patch blow off twice. Not sure why that one refused to cooperate but here we are.

The other four look pretty good. The big'n that started this all is now pretty good. I can still find it easy enough, but no one else would be able to very easily at all. This kit, unlike Permatex, can do multiple repairs, so I decided to fix some other small ones that probably didn't really need it, but they got it. I still have plenty left for more jobs. Two of them I can't even find anymore.

That review site did not do this kit justice, btw. They made it sound like it was a low-rent kit, and the Permatex was the advanced one with the vacuum/pressure approach. Well, the rain-x kit also applies pressure with a screw-in plunger. The trick is setting up the system so it blows out trapped air without blowing out all the resin. Takes a bit of practice but they give enough materials that you can fail a few times and start over.

The other trick is scraping off the excess. On the big'n, the scraping turned the repair white, so I had to apply more resin and then scrape it only around the repair. This left a tiny, low blob but at least it's crystal-clear (and that's with three layers, now).

 

This what I use as well. Very handy, 2 thumbs up.

 

I already ordered a duck bill for it. That will make it way easier, and also let me use it on wheels. Too lazy to do anything with it tonight. 😴

 

As soon as I opened the box and saw no packaging and a zip-lock I knew was screwed.


Got the right 296mm rotors, but they gave me the smaller pads that fit the 276mm rotor.
276mm rotor = Malibu
296mm rotor = Malibu Max



20mm too short and a touch too wide to fit in the caliper mount.


Someone recently pad slapped it, and the pads are still as thick as the new ones.
I might clean them up and resurface them with my D/A and reuse them.
He is selling it, and it needs a lot more $$ in tie rods and struts.
Returning the $40 brake pads might buy a couple cheap tie rod ends.

 

Damn, where'd you buy the pads, Phil?

I'm going to go raid the scrap metal pile at work today and see what I can come up with to do some mods to the tire changer. It can actually be made into a really useful machine.

 

I worked at Advance Auto for a while in College, it was insane what people would return in the boxes. There was one guy who belonged to the local car group, he needed a new ECU for his car. He paid through the nose to buy it from Advance. He swapped the main board and returned the ECU.

 

Maxi-automotive, a warehouse near me that I have an account at.
The box is right, just wrong parts in box
I was able to clean up the old pads and use them.





I had one caliper pin that wouldn't come out.
I had to squirt some penetrating oil down around the boot and hit it with the Mini-Ductor.
Once it heated up and the oil was smoking and bubbling, I twisted it with a wrench, and it popped out like a champagne cork.



I used one of these to clean out the caliper mount, I had bought new pins and boots when I got the parts.