beware of fresh blacktop

[mjeff87]

On the way home from work last night, drove thru a road construction zone where the workers were laying a fresh topcoat of blacktop down. No big deal, right? Well, about 1/4 mile later there develops the most gawd-awful grinding/scraping sound under the front end. Scary enough to make me pull over and inspect to see if I was dragging something underneath (wasn't). Limped it into the driveway, waited out a horrendous rainstorm, and pulled the left front wheel hoping the unit bearing hadn't crapped the bed :roll: Turns out a fresh hot piece of blacktop got itself wedged behind the rotor and the backing plate. It had actually fused itself to the backing plate :headpop: and of course I couldn't get it out. Had to pull the @$#^% rotor off and chisel the damn thing off the backing plate with a screwdriver and a hammer. It left a very faint score on the rotor, not enough for me to worry about.

 

When I swap the new D30 in, it ain't gonna have dustsheilds!

Jeff

[87manche]

you just sealed the fate on mine. I had already forgotten to put my drivers side back on after my wheelbearing nightmare. That's what happens when you do a wheelbearing at 2AM. Looks like the new D30 isn't getting them at all.

[whowey]

Like I always said blacktop is evil., pure evil

[DirtyComanche]

Oh very true. No Jeep was ment for the road.

 

 

(Except the liberty, but we won't talk about it)

[Oizarod115]

Oh very true. No Jeep was ment for the road.

 

 

(Except the liberty, but we won't talk about it)

 

now remember boys and girls the liberty is STILL a jeep however ugly it may be. lets just not mention that fact however. i don't want to hear its name on this forum again. lol.

[c0mt3k]

Oh very true. No Jeep was ment for the road.

 

 

(Except the liberty, but we won't talk about it)

 

now remember boys and girls the liberty is STILL a jeep however ugly it may be. lets just not mention that fact however. i don't want to hear its name on this forum again. lol.

 

agreed.

[Pete M]

Unless we're talking about stealing that sweet diesel out of one. (But not if the reason is better fuel mileage. No MPG gain could ever make up for the costs of swapping in one of those)

[Eagle]

The 'L' word vehicle is not a Jeep. It's a DaimlerChrysler grocery getter SUV wannabe masquerading behind a Jeep name plate. It's more of a Dodge car than a Jeep vehicle. Doesn't even have a Jeep engine in it. (Of course, the next generation Wranglers won't have Jeep engines, either. But they will have solid axles, at least)

[tjbliley]

If you look at the 'L' thing you will notice a distict resemblence to the offspring if a Durango and aWrangler mated and had kids. I belileve this would make it a bastard child and not a full member of the family. More like a step child.