Continued...
My brother finally showed up, so I showed him how to install the races in the new rotors. I heard a different sound and looked over to have him pounding on a washer that was on top of the bearing, which was seated in the race.
<sigh>
I didn't specifically tell him not to have the bearing in place but did not have one when I installed the other side. Luckily he had another bearing in his box of new parts I keep in the garage, so he installed that.
Then I put everything together.
And had to drill out one of the bleeders on the only caliper we didn't replace because it still worked fine.
And hooked up the Motive Power Bleeder but could not believe how bad his master will filled with sludge, so I vacuumed that out first and flushed it. I used an acid brush inside to scrape all the junk off the inside of the master.
And then we discovered a hole in one of the not-so-bad looking hard lines. Yep, it's a definitely B4.
So out came the hard line rebuild kit, and I decided to install some new inner flex lines since I had them on the shelf. If one side went, the other wasn't far away so I just made both sides from scratch. The new copper lines are much easier to work with than the old steel lines.
And then everything held. We bled the brakes and he was amazed at the rock hard pedal he had. Obviously he never had really decent brakes.
I even "sold" him a set of nearly new studded snow tires since he needed them and it snowed the day prior. Two of his were bald on the inside due to everything in the rear of the car being toast. I also gave him the winter wiper blades off my car since I bought new ones. Mine weren't bad but I found a deal on some new ones so I decided to swap them on rather than waiting until the old ones died. He definitely needed them.
His car still needs a ton of work, but at least it's mobile now. It's his only transportation. He is going to have someone with a lift weld up his exhaust and perhaps do the rust work on his outer rockers, as well as tackle the fuel tank straps since one of his is broken. He has new stainless ones W386 had made up for him so they just need to be installed. Oh, and he needs a windshield since his is broken.
I had about 24 hours into it all total during the week, along with my spare axle beam, flex lines, 4 studded snows mounted and balanced on B4 wheels, and some copper tubing. Oh well, he's my brother. I wish I had time to tackle the other items but my own B4 needs work and it's damn cold in the unheated, unattached garage.
Never a dull day with a B4.