We woke up abojut 7:70, but spent some time in bed before getting up to do the pet stuff. We didn't have breakfast. Instead we waited until 9 to see if John and Melissa wanted to go to brunch. They did.
We went to Funkadelic. John drove of course. I think they both liked the food. After brunch we just went back home. We talked until Isaac and Bella showed up about noon. Then John, Isaac, and I went out to the garage to change the rear brakes in Isaac's van.
The job wasn't easy. The bolts were all rusted on and needed a breaker bar to remove them. The disks were rusted on. It took a lot of banging on them to get the disks off.
The worst part was that John couldn't get the piston to retract even though he had a special tool to make it retract. We (mostly John) worked for hours on it. I couldn't help, so I left and put all of the tubes from the car cover in the garbage. That included the unused ones in the storage shed.
John finally called his buddy. The guy builds dragsters. The guy told him that there was probably something wrong with the piston retract mechanism or John wasn't operating it correctly. After a lot more work John figured out that the adjuster had to be pushed in as it was turned. After that the first wheel was done pretty quickly.
The second wheel was much easier now that John knew how to retract the piston. In all it took him almost 7 hours of work to do the two wheels.
Through all of this I hung around to get him the tools he needed. I did move th tubs and ate lunch with everyone else (John kept working). Occasionally I managed to help John a little, but it's mostly a one man job.
When we we done Isaac and Bella went home. John and Melissa came over. John and I watched football (Seahawks got slaughtered). Melissa fixed us leftover steak sandwiches for dinner. Then she and Ellen made Baklava.
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