welcome everyone to vlogmas in july that's right a video every day presented by nomad
internet typically vlogmas is done in december where vloggers on youtube upload a video every
day for 25 days leading up till christmas morning as a christmas fanatic this is a great way for
me to be cheerful and thankful all month long opie you better be a good boy this july santa
paws is watching tara no more sneaking into catnip sack santa paws will bring you coal
thanks for joining me this month guys and have a jolly old month of july
that's right everybody vlogmas in july a video every single day continues
and sadly ends today here on the 25th of july for you guys as you can see
we got some work to do on frida today i'll tell you about the story
yeah thanks for joining me guys i am here at an rv park the project that we're working
on right now may not end but like i said vlogmas in july is over this is the last one
uh let me tell you a little bit of story because about how we got here and how i realized a couple
things that were going on first of all i was driving here yesterday driving down highway 12
and really out of the out of the blue uh my rv was pulling to the right pulling to the passenger side
in fact in order to go straight i had to have the steering wheel at about 9 30 10 o'clock
just to go straight and then if i let go of it obviously it jerked back around went past center
and was wanting to go into the right and i was driving down the road thinking okay but if i hold
it here you know we can go straight and everything feels right did i come out of alignment is that a
thing like no i don't think that's really a thing something's got to be going on right it only took
uh ten ten more miles to figure out something was going on uh i started smelling burnt breaks guys
and knowing that there was no semi-trucks in front of me or around me or any other vehicles
that could come by i took the very next stop got out of the driver's side smelled under that wheel
well nothing came over to this side right now where andrew's at and yeah burnt breaks
which makes sense in my mind andrew and i were talking about it it's like okay maybe we have
a caliper that's seized like it's it's applying brakes to the rotor or somehow there's a kinked
brake line or something going on but but clearly this side is breaking that's why it's pulling to
the right and i'm having to compensate on the steering wheel but we're all speculating i went
to aberdeen picked up my buddy andrew we're gonna go ahead and pull off that tire and take a look
at the brakes take a look at the caliper but let's take this tire off and take a peek at the caliper
andrew's got the caliper off here off the rotor inspected the rotor and it doesn't actually look
that bad but not just testing it to see that once it's compressed in that these actually push back
out naturally all right uh here's where we're at the caliper doesn't appear to be having an
issue directly but we know something's going on in that system there's something making the brakes
burn up and pulling the rv um all the brake fluid looks okay and everything but on the back side of
the rotor there's a there's a strong cut on the back side and if you look at the pad on the back
side the pad shows that there was once a rock that got lodged between the pad and the rotor
so at this point i guess i'm just kind of all in and saying let's just do a complete front brake
redo so uh that way i know right now when the front brakes are done that means we're gonna go
get two new rotors two new calipers brake pads on both sides and while we're at it we're doing
wheel bearings right yeah we're gonna do wheel bearings too so andrew's gonna take apart one side
so we have all the parts to go in then we'll go down to o'reilly's get everything we need and uh
we'll be here for the day exciting thanks andrew sandra's got the hub assembly off and it just
i don't know if it shows up on yeah right there see my fingers at that is most likely damaged
from a rock that got between the rotor and the pad there and uh it's it's it's time it's it's
just time to get some new rotors one more wheel bearing in there we gotta grab all right guys we
just got back from o'reilly's got some toys let me show you this will be a complete front brake job
guys two rotors two calipers brake pads ceramic we got our bearings for inner and outer we've got new
grease seals some grease new brake lines here we're gonna have to have some more fluid there
because we are gonna lose some when we bleed the whole system but uh yeah we're gonna do this and
by we of course i mean andrew is gonna do it i'm gonna pay him because nobody ever pays me in gum
do you just also want to mention that we got park permission to do this because this caliper had
locked up maybe not all parks you go to will allow you to do work like this if it's maintenance but
if it's something that has to be done because it was an emergency uh right now we're just kind of
not really flushing the system but you know i got some extra brake fluid so we're just gonna top off
the master cylinder and let it drip into this pan uh it's actually coming out really really
clear right now so in a way by the time we get done because we're gonna have to bleed all four
points of this after we get done with this job uh we should have some some pretty good clean fresh
brake fluid not stuff from 21 years ago so for reference we went with o'reilly and uh we have
an issue with the calipers we've got the left and right calipers and it's not working i'll show you
so this hanger the one we just pulled off is identical to the other hanger that we got these
are fine this is for the passenger side however if you go to the driver's side you can see
that these are opposite right and the hardware doesn't fit on this one's
clearly off and wrong also one thing we were noticing is that this has a different
it's got a little chrysler emblem on it which is really throwing us off on this also this
just doesn't naturally fit and this is the hardware that came in the box with this hanger so
before we go any further we think we have to make a separate trip and go back an hour and and go see
what's up it's just one of those frustrating things a part of this may have been a return
part of it may have been somebody checking out a few different pieces and then they got put in the
wrong box that don't match up with the hardware but um i need a file no matter what all right so
we're close to losing daylight here but got the passenger tire put on just kind of temporarily
this is just in case the uh jack actually fails and andrew's over on the other side working so we
went ahead and called o'reilly's they don't have any of these in stock so temporarily what we're
going to do is we're going to use the existing bracket for the caliper on the passenger side
which is this one temporarily so this will be the only piece on the driver's side that's currently
not brand new but we know it's going to fit and then later on we can swap this out once we get it
all figured out we think they may have just put this part in the wrong box and they're they're
going to make it right but not tonight we want to get the rv back together tonight all right we're
getting close as the sun is setting here getting the second side back together except for the one
old piece that click good cool there we go so we have just begun our second uh 32 ounce of brake
fluid there just want to point out i forgot to get a video of it earlier but this whole bottom
section was a very dark dirty 21 year old uh brake fluid there and now as you can see it's clear uh
we're gonna we're getting close to starting the uh brake bleed session because we are just about
finished up here on the driver's side so we're gonna start bleeding the brakes andrew and i
i'm gonna start farthest away from our master cylinder right here over on the passenger rear
and then come over to the driver rear and then passenger front and then finish up here so we're
gonna bleed these brakes put the tire back on be back in business all right so i'm uh facetiming
here with uh andrew on my phone he's gonna tell me when to apply the brakes and what to do and
let her rip all right now we're down we're halfway we're to the floor
up we're released
we're down now we'll jump over to the passenger side and do the same thing and then do the front
driver side all right well i'm back to the rv had to take andrew back to aberdeen and back which
added another three hours and 15 minutes me behind the wheel i'm just so tired of driving
uh it is now 2 15 in the morning and i'm exhausted guys however this project this break project uh
we're well we're done but i'm not going to be able to test it i mean i'm not going to do it tonight
i'm not going to do it tomorrow in a couple days when i leave here it'll be the first time i get
on the road and of course i know we're breaking in some new breaks so there's that whole routine and
then i need to make sure that i have brakes make sure there's no air left in the line so i'm going
to put this off as far as testing it and to make sure the wheel is back in the center position but
for right now i'm gonna i'm just gonna call it quits this is um
not really the ending uh to vlogmas in july that i was expecting and i reduced it from 31 days
to 25 anyway but um it's been an interesting month it's been a been a learning experience
those of you who have watched all my videos i really appreciate you guys you guys are awesome
but don't don't do this if you're a youtube creator it's not going to do anything for your
channel it's just gonna drive you crazy i'm gonna take a little break guys okay so be patient opie
and tara and i will not see you tomorrow we'll see you when we're ready okay okay bye guys
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