So I'm going to chalk this up to me being stupid...
Last week we got quite a bit of snow so I decided to do an e-brake slide in a large empty parking lot to see how the car reacts in a skid. I heard a pop and when I went to drive the car straight it started turning quite a bit. Hmmm... The parking brake must have stuck or jammed on one side. So I get out and give the wheel a good ol' kick. Get back in the car and everything seems fine. 2 days ago I'm about a mile away from home, just driving normal, and I hear another loud pop and then brakes grinding (didn't sound too loud...) I limp home and pull of the wheel that most smelled like melted brake. The inside of the rotor was blued from the heat, the caliper was frozen shut, and the brake pads had delaminated. Nothing too serious... I thought I should be safe and check the other side while I was at it.
I pull the rotor off and chunks of metal fall down to the floor. Ooops... the parking brake pretty much detonated on the driver side. The tab on the wheel hub housing had been sheared off. I do some searching on this forum and learn I'm in for a spendy fix. I found a wrecking yard that had the housing in one of their other locations and that they could get it to their nearest to me location by the next morning (it's about 60 miles away...). This morning I went to O'reilly's and picked up most everything else I needed, Calipers, Rotors, pads, etc. No parking brake hardware kits are available anywhere... And I REALLY need to get my car back on the road. I drive up to pick up the wrecking yard part and they have no record of me ordering it. After some fighting with them they finally find the sales order and tell me that they haven't pulled the part yet (this was an hour after they told me it would be ready). I leave for 30 minutes and come back to see a front knuckle at the counter. Big argument over what I ordered (they finally admitted they messed up) and I'm out the door with my part, now 3 hours AFTER they said it would be ready. I find the parking brake hardware in a Volvo dealership about 90 miles away...
Lots of driving around, I should be able to put the car back together tonight...
Anything else I should replace while I'm there? I did order a new hub, for the side that was really bad, the hub on the other side seems fine. Any tricks to reassembly?
Scott
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