Well I managed to do a ridiculously stupid thing, on top of another stupid mistake. I can't seem to win recently with Jeep stuff.
Might as well bare all, hopefully someone else might learn from my stupidity. Late May/early June I woke at 5 am to head ~3hrs north to guide a trail run. My steering felt a bit off, so when I stopped for gas (no coffee yet) I looked and the reservoir was a little low, so I bought some steering fluid and poured a bit in....into the brake reservoir! On my way back it was eating into my mind to look to see if I put it into the right reservoir. Nope. When I got home I used a turkey baster and sucked out a lot of the fluid on top, but not so low to cause air into the system and filled it with clean *brake* fluid. [I lead with this because it could be related]
Couple weeks later I go out again, made it 3 hours north, run a couple big runs and toward the end after shifting into 2wd my brakes lock up. Had to call CAA (like AAA up here) to lift me home. Took the front wheels off and inspected the damage. The pads were pure metal and the rotors ground down. This is weird cause I probably had ~10K on them. [another reason might be that half our trails run in muddy water the length of the trail].
Ok, so I thought this was a learning moment. Watched a bunch of YT videos, ordered parts and finally got around to attempting to do it myself. I am reasonably handy and engineering minded (don't laugh given the aforementioned) but I got careless and too cocky. I got to all the way to depressing the cylinders to put in the new pads but was doing both sides at the same time and popped one cylinder out.
But the seals look toast anyway, this was the pushing side. Not the eject side. One is torn, the other pushed all the way out. I was careful with the tool and the old pad to go back and forth slowly but this was the result. Maybe it isn't a bad thing I failed?
So now where do I go from here?
Might as well bare all, hopefully someone else might learn from my stupidity. Late May/early June I woke at 5 am to head ~3hrs north to guide a trail run. My steering felt a bit off, so when I stopped for gas (no coffee yet) I looked and the reservoir was a little low, so I bought some steering fluid and poured a bit in....into the brake reservoir! On my way back it was eating into my mind to look to see if I put it into the right reservoir. Nope. When I got home I used a turkey baster and sucked out a lot of the fluid on top, but not so low to cause air into the system and filled it with clean *brake* fluid. [I lead with this because it could be related]
Couple weeks later I go out again, made it 3 hours north, run a couple big runs and toward the end after shifting into 2wd my brakes lock up. Had to call CAA (like AAA up here) to lift me home. Took the front wheels off and inspected the damage. The pads were pure metal and the rotors ground down. This is weird cause I probably had ~10K on them. [another reason might be that half our trails run in muddy water the length of the trail].
Ok, so I thought this was a learning moment. Watched a bunch of YT videos, ordered parts and finally got around to attempting to do it myself. I am reasonably handy and engineering minded (don't laugh given the aforementioned) but I got careless and too cocky. I got to all the way to depressing the cylinders to put in the new pads but was doing both sides at the same time and popped one cylinder out.
But the seals look toast anyway, this was the pushing side. Not the eject side. One is torn, the other pushed all the way out. I was careful with the tool and the old pad to go back and forth slowly but this was the result. Maybe it isn't a bad thing I failed?
So now where do I go from here?
