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Sometimes if there's an air bubble that gets caught inside the rubber cap, when the caliper heats up the air expands and pops the cap off (especially if the cap and bleeder are wet with slippery brake fluid.) Clean the bleeder and cap with brake cleaner, and try to squeeze out any trapped air when you put the cap on. IMO, YMMV, etc.

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I can understand how this might all seem like a problem to those unfamiliar with the ways of the garage. Though they may not understand, we can all assure them that the garage time, as described herein, is perfectly serving its true intention. Everything is as it should be.

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Ya gotta bring the vroo back to Bawlamer, hon.

audiocage · ‎07-04-2022

"...you sometimes have to force yourself to stress about the right things." This. So much this. It should be in caps. It's good to sweat the details, but you have to sweat the *right* details (because there isn't enough time to sweat all of them.)

audiocage · ‎02-04-2022

Is that a euphemism?

audiocage · ‎01-04-2022

As an added bonus: If you stare at the doors and de-focus a bit, there's a Magic Eye 3-D photo of Zora Arkus-Duntov flipping you the bird.

audiocage · ‎30-03-2022

Authentic laugh out loud, as a wise person once said. The Phillips piece had me snorting Cheerios out of my nose. Someone owes me a keyboard.

audiocage · ‎16-03-2022

Change just a few words, and all of this is true for guitars, too. I think it comes with the Y chromosome.

audiocage · ‎11-03-2022

I don't know bikes. I don't do bikes. I am far too tall for a Navi; far too old and too breakable to go hooning around on any kind of 2-wheeled velocipede. And yet, now I want one. Damn it.

audiocage · ‎07-03-2022

Custom chromium brake discs put you ahead of the pack, every time!

audiocage · ‎07-03-2022

Yep, we have that same back-feed extension, which we've dubbed the Cable Of Extreme Danger. Last time the power went out, I spent an hour sitting on the driveway rebuilding the varnished-up carb on the generator. Got it finished just in time for the power to come back on. Lesson learned...

audiocage · ‎18-02-2022

"...as rationing set in and pigment grew rare..." How much more bleak could it be? The answer is none; none more bleak.

audiocage · ‎01-02-2022

I hope he's had his tetanus shot.

audiocage · ‎27-01-2022

At least Avogadro would be proud. Probably.

audiocage · ‎27-01-2022

Over the years, I went through a series of stages where acquiring the right specialty tool would (theoretically) enable me to tackle a wider variety of repairs. “Now I have X; now I can do Y” Often, that was true, but there was one repeated exception to this pattern: “Now I have (air tools/MIG welder/torch/etc.) so now I can do exhaust work. Nope. Dismal failure every single time. The final straw came when I attempted to replace the dual system on my ’85 Chevy Crew-Cab pickup. I started at 6 AM. When my wife returned home at 7 PM, I was cut, burned, and covered in rust flakes; my shirt was ripped, and I could barely stand up. The truck had a broken rear shock absorber, and no exhaust beyond the manifolds. I told her that if I ever mused about doing my own exhaust work again, she should just shoot me. Sometimes, the best approach is to be happily helpless and just pay the man.

audiocage · ‎26-01-2022

I don't know mountain bikes, but if the velocipede in question is the one shown in the pictures, I have to question your definition of "fits."

audiocage · ‎23-01-2022

Drool-worthy.

audiocage · ‎19-01-2022

The Capital Beltway can be terrifying in just about anything. Except when it becomes a parking lot.

audiocage · ‎09-01-2022

Everybody did.

audiocage · ‎07-01-2022

'Twas the Putanesca that I remember best...

audiocage · ‎06-01-2022

This. So very much this.

audiocage · ‎06-01-2022

Eiw.

audiocage · ‎03-01-2022

"I cannot properly." Oh, the times when I have been similarly unable...

audiocage · ‎30-12-2021

Your description of the Colt reminded me of a NUMMI Nova/Corolla (the only car at the rental office that had a stick shift) that we thrashed at Watkins Glen for a weekend (pre-Bus-Stop chicane.) Two of us flogged that thing like a rented mule for three days, alternating sessions between us. It wasn't quick, but we never ran it out of tires, brakes, or synchros. It was also significantly faster with all the windows up...

audiocage · ‎21-12-2021

When I was a kid, I used to dig into my older brother’s stash of Hot Rod magazines. I clearly remember seeing the Cheetah on those pages, and thinking that it was the most completely badass thing that ever rolled on 4 wheels. Even though I had no idea what I was looking at, the shape just said, “All business, all the time.”

audiocage · ‎08-12-2021

Ohhh... that guy. That guy is everywhere. Maybe don't. (Shoes will be too wide for me.)

audiocage · ‎07-12-2021

Our thoughts are with you during this difficult time.

audiocage · ‎03-12-2021

Long ago, Cadillac used to mean something. And then, less long ago, it came to mean something else. And that is part of the problem, clutch pedal notwithstanding.

audiocage · ‎24-11-2021

More cowbell! I have earplugs, and I want to drive it.

audiocage · ‎17-11-2021

As Thurber said, “You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.”

audiocage · ‎03-11-2021

We learned that Sam Smith is living the dream.

audiocage · ‎29-10-2021

Stuttgart must have an impressive fleet of tow trucks!

audiocage · ‎28-10-2021

Eiw.

audiocage · ‎27-10-2021

Well, that's just glorious. So much to like, even if you choose to ignore the brilliant car control. Just watching him work the controls is a treat. Kudos for taking these out in the wet and using them as intended. These early cars: they had figured out the 'go' part and got it working so much better than the 'stop' and 'turn' parts at this point in time. It took massive skills and massive stones to hustle them along.

audiocage · ‎23-10-2021

Super-quick hands; don't scrub momentum; keep it on the boil. Like a tin-top go-kart, because it is. Hassling the Mustang through the 'talent' part of the track is just a bonus.

audiocage · ‎20-10-2021

"...you get out there, take a leisurely start, come up to pace after a few laps, then let the field sort itself out based on raw pace." Oof. Run away. Far, far away.

audiocage · ‎08-10-2021

Great job capturing these intangibles that most non-participants never consider. The stuggle-to-satisfaction ratio in racing is something like 99 to 1. But the satisfaction is clear and pure and intense, and it makes the struggle worthwhile somehow. Until, perhaps one day, it doesn't anymore, and you know that you're done.

audiocage · ‎06-10-2021

JeeeEEEEEZ! I drove a comp-prepped 250SWB on the track once. The guys who drove those cars in anger were a breed apart, that's for sure.

audiocage · ‎04-09-2021

"Nearly wins every time" is a deceptive sentence.

audiocage · ‎27-07-2021

Something in the way it drives...

audiocage · ‎22-07-2021

Not all mushrooms are edible.

audiocage · ‎17-07-2021

Nice "Chuckles the Clown" quote, BTW...

audiocage · ‎16-07-2021

Mayer, Porsche, and PRS. Congrats - I think that's the Trifecta of polarizing topics. Well done. If you had worked Bonamassa in there too, it might have exploded The Interwebs...

audiocage · ‎15-07-2021

Takes me back. My first convertible ride was in a '66 Spridget, and it was every bit as addictive. To your point: Driving IS more fun than wrenching, and is, after all, the whole point. And al fresco motoring has a restorative effect on the soul. An aside: If the top is down, the windows go down. People used to know this, but somehow forgot during the years when convertibles fell out of favor.

audiocage · ‎14-07-2021

Also: Occasional Bezel would make a pretty good band name.

audiocage · ‎14-07-2021

This will help a lot with my bezels. But what about my escutcheons?

audiocage · ‎08-07-2021

I... wow.

audiocage · ‎03-07-2021

I keep seeing Scrat from Ice Age.

audiocage · ‎02-07-2021

From any angle, looking at the front end makes my brain hurt.

audiocage · ‎25-06-2021

Whoops. Missed the first installment...