I haven’t really had time to do much more, I clearances the knuckles and the tires spin freely now. But once warmer weather hits I’ll get at it. They’re supposed to lift the travel ban here in May and if so I’m going to a big run may 24 weekend. Considering the swap might take a few weeks to complete, I don’t want to start it until after that.
In the meantime we’ve been wheeling and again I’ve done something I’ve never seen before.
We were about 20 miles from home on tight trails and came across lots of water due to snow melt. The first 4 or 5 I went through slowly, they were about 4’ deep. Then I started having fun, hitting them faster and faster. In one hole I hit something quite hard/big crash and thought “oh crap, here we go” but nope, backed up and carried on. Short while later the brake pedal dropped a bit. After a bit there was loud grinding so when we hit a dry spot I took out the flashlight (it was 2am, I love being retired, lol)
No broken u joints and everything looked fine so let’s head for home.
Shortly after, brake pedal goes to the floor. Crap.
Next day took it apart, one pad missing, the other one is out of place...wtf???
The knuckle is bent!!