{"id":3541,"date":"2010-03-17T20:26:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T01:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3541"},"modified":"2010-03-17T20:26:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T01:26:24","slug":"i-has-a-bukkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3541","title":{"rendered":"I has a bukkit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m not afraid to use it. <\/p>\n<p>Tonight I put in a new set of front brakes and rotors on the exploder, set number&#8230; I think 17. I never let them get really thin, in fact I usually change them before they get halfway through the pads. Todays job was less about braking ability than warped rotors; every once in a while, a little nasty traffic  and extra hard braking warps a rotor and you end up with &#8220;wobbitawobbitawobbita&#8221; as you stop, and i had that in spades. I also suspected maybe my passenger outer tie rod was loose, so I replaced that too. <\/p>\n<p>Halfway into the job, which I&#8217;ve always done on my knees on a mechanic&#8217;s mat, I realize there&#8217;s a bucket close by- a friend gives us buckets from food-grade frosting, which we use to store food etc. <\/p>\n<p>So I grabbed a bucket and sat on it while doing brakes.<\/p>\n<p>My knees actually feel as though they still contain cartilage and lubricating fluid, and not pea gravel. Imagine!<\/p>\n<p>Still had to lay on the floor to do the tie rod end.<\/p>\n<p>At least I don&#8217;t do the &#8220;wobbitawobbitawobbita&#8221; anymore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m not afraid to use it. Tonight I put in a new set of front brakes and rotors on the exploder, set number&#8230; I think 17. I never let them get really thin, in fact I usually change them before they get halfway through the pads. Todays job was less about braking ability than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}