Wrenching your vehicle! (what have you done today?)

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Took my grandmas car off the battery charger and soon realized that the brake pedal is sinking to the floor. Didnt actually perform any work on it today but realized that the rear brake line is rusted in half

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Yesterday I had to do the brakes on a friends car. It was the most intense brake job I had to do because of the fact that the car was sitting in the driveway for a little over a year. That being said, everything was rusted and I was hoping that the calipers weren’t siezed. Thankfully, with some careful persuasion I was able to compress the calipers. I got the old rusted rotors off and put the new pads on. A little brake and caliper grease, brake cleaner for the rotors, and then bled the whole system. Once I was done, I torqued the wheels down with a torque stick and “bedded in the brakes”. She stops on a dime now. The week before my uncle and I actually put a junkyard engine in it, put new transmission filter and fluid, engine oil and filter, power steering fluid, coolant, air filter, battery, fuel filter, and gas treatment. We topped off the tank and it wanted to start. It cranked. We noticed a bunch of electrical problems and traced it back to a faulty bcm. Two days ago I put the bcm in that I got from the junkyard for $75, did a 30 minute re-learn procedure, and the car started. Car runs and feels like new.

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