I chuckle quietly to myself when I read things like this.
It's what I do for a living, and have been for 40+ years.
If Yaris rear brakes took my apprentice much more than an hour he would have to have some good reasons.
I sometimes have trouble understanding why people bother taking all day to do something any reasonable mechanic would do in less than an hour and a quarter.
Especially when it comes to brakes, where an error could cost lives.
This is true, this little job should have taken me less than an hour, and a wheel cyclinder should not have been needing to be replaced. I went to school worked for a time in the industry back in the 80's had a few hot rods that I built myself.
I haven't touched a brake job since the 80's though, and forgot a few tricks of the trade until I waddled through the first side...the other side took me about 20 mins once I remembered what I was doing lol.
You have to consider average joe doesn't have a lift, and things like that in order to save time.
It was all manual labor for me, floor Jack, 4 way lug wrench.....slip of a screw driver into a wheel cylinder
going back and forth to get parts, etc...this eats time...
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I've been fixing cars for a very long time, I don't do this as a profession.
The novelty of working on a car died out with me when I was still a teenager. I do this wretched activity only to save money.
Yeah, you've got to see the perverted humour in having to do pull the motor to bits to change a cheap, non-descript, but vital gasket.
May I ask where this gasket is located?
And yes, I despise drum brakes.
Vimy, it's that gasket between the block, and oil filter assymbly and it's an automatic, so I have to take a couple other things off. Her power steering pump has to be replaced also (this is the 3rd pump too) have to pull that off, so I'll replace it too.
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I've been fixing cars for a very long time, I don't do this as a profession.
The novelty of working on a car died out with me when I was still a teenager. I do this wretched activity only to save money.
Yeah, you've got to see the perverted humour in having to do pull the motor to bits to change a cheap, non-descript, but vital gasket.
May I ask where this gasket is located?
And yes, I despise drum brakes.
Vimy, it's that gasket between the block, and oil filter assymbly and it's an automatic, so I have to take a couple other things off. Her power steering pump has to be replaced also (this is the 3rd pump too) have to pull that off, so I'll replace it too.