Here she is:
Rusty brakes from sitting too long:
Serviced:
It appeared the upper caliper bolt doubled as the slider at first, judging by all the brake lube on it...then I looked closer and decided that wasn't right. The sliders didn't want to move...not sized, but dry and stuck. Everything else was lubed. A hard enough shove got them moving:
(Do your brake services properly, people!)
Grinding noise was not the brakes. Had her running in gear with the brakes completely off, and it was still there. Traced it the the passenger side bearing and/or CV joint. I intend on replacing them both, since the CV boots won't last much longer anyway:
She stops better now. You still have to push fairly hard to get her to come to a quick stop, but you can now actually come to a slow stop rather than not a lot happening and having to push them hard at the last moment.
After, I went to put a heater in the back to blow on the IMA battery and such, since I noticed condensation on the battery switch. Pulled the storage tub out to find the spare tire sitting in this:
Scale and lack of depth make it not seem so bad...but there was probably 2 gallons in there! No wonder the car started fogging up when I took it for a drive first thing this morning.
At least we know the spare tire well is water tight.
Not even a grommet/plug to pull to drain it. Sigh.
