I have the WORST luck of all men kind

[pkw1]

I swear man, I'm not going to make it through this year alive... NOTHING has been going right.

to keep this post on what happened just mainly on the brakes issue..

I picked up a 1995 240SX at the end of summer, and the car has very low brakes left already.. so I drove it through the winter then change to 300ZX brakes as soon as spring comes.

Sping's here, and I've been trying to collect parts for the brakes for 2 months... no joke.. 2 freaking months. Not because I left things at last min. but my luck. EVERYTHING I tried to order was on EXTREME back order. And I basically BOUGHT my way through stuff... paying DAM DAM DAM extra to get things in.

my car sat in my garage for 2 weeks because it's got no brakes left... none... zero...

so finally the last part came in today, and I spent the day installing everything. TONS of complications as usual, but i went through it... till the very last.

I was putting on the LAST wheel and the LAST lug stud stripped on me.

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sorry.. i really needed to vent this out or i'm going to go crazy..

I swear I was going to cry when this happened.

But after a night of good sleep, I felt much better.

so I'll share some of the funky pictures that i took last night and this morning.



The front didn't give me THAT much of trouble. The only time consuming part was to cut parts of the heat shield off to clear the thicker rotors.



As you can see.. the back gave me just WAY TOO MUCH trouble. After putting everything together, all ready to go, the last 2 studs decide to strip on me. So i have to take everything apart again for that rear side.



Now beside the retarded studs breaking off, look what happened when I was trying to remove the rear rotor off the hub. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sigh.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''>



Pretty scary stuff If you ask me man... these things are supposed to save my life??!! I'm NEVER buying non-oem parts or non-big name brakes like these .. now-2-piece rotors...

and the rest of the pictures can be found here]