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Seriously, don't try this at home. Being a shop owner and mechanic, I have no excuse other than just being insanely busy for what I am going to tell you. I pushed the Mighty Max's brakes to the point where tonight i almost took out the Napa on Uni ;) (wouldn't have been a huge loss) I was going slow enought that the sidewalk stopped me before I dented the building. Right before I pulled in the lot, that annoying metal on metal noise I have been hearing for far too long dissapeared as well as the brakes. So I get out of the truck and on my way inside I notice a front backing plate for what used to be a brake pad laying in front of the truck, I touch it like a dumbass and almost end up with my fingers welded to it. Pretty bad when they fall right out of the caliper hahaha. I guess it's true about the mechanic working on their vehicles last. Good thing I know how to drive without brakes.

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Haha, Mike owned himself :D

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Look above...lol..man were u bored or sumthing? you ok though rite?

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All I can say is,.........

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Glad I can entertain you dorks :P

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I can definately say I've seen worse, like the time Allan bought that 1.8L DSM,.......... oh shit,............. I forgot, he still has it. :p

Or the time when,..............

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The scorchers own allan again. LOL

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I will say that no matter how bad life gets I can still look at that picture and know it could be soo much worse.

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I'm glad you feel better now. :p

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you fuckers! lol Mike I wish that would have happened a bit sooner and you would have driven into the snow bank at my place. But the good thing is you didn't get hurt. Point out the fact of me needing new brakes sooner than later on the 1.8

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I think you earned the name "shortbus" not me.

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Nice job Mike haha! You need to start working on your own cars now lol :)

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I'll be the first to say...

Glad you're okay. At least it was there and not on the highway or something.

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Glad to see you made it out okay.

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mwhahahha, well we know you can hear them squeak for what 4 months before they actually die?

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Hahahha! Best thread this month!

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Easily 4 months hahaha, I suck. The max will be happy with all new brakes this afternoon though. For some reason I don't want to waste time to see if the calipers survived, i am pretty sure the pistons were not designed to ride on the rotors directly ;) I suppose if I looked at it in normal Raptor mentality, the front calipers are lighter with no pads in them!

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Ha Ha Ha that was funny. Glad your ok. At least you shaved off 1 lb of weight off the truck. Next up is drilling holes. Now I know I can go three months after the noise. Thanks for testing the theory for us.

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Look at it like this, you were already at NAPA.
chashier-Anything else for you today sir?
Mike-how about some brakes for a mitsu mighty max...
chashier-...hm, looks like were all out
mike- ehh, I'll just get 'em later.

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Actually, I bought them at the brake warehouse, 120 for both rotors, and both calipers loaded, I wouldn't bother going anywhere else. I managed to drive back to the shop from napa without my foot ever touching the brake pedal as well. I might have made a less than legal stop at a few signs, but it worked out.