[Focus man. Focus.]

Well as most of you know, not that long ago I changed my rear shoes and drums. Yesterday I had a Catastrophic Failure which started on the Gardiner Expressway. The left rear wheel bearing totally blew up. Luckily I was able to get it off the highway and into a parking lot between Lakeshore and Queens Quay where I left it. Todd had borrowed my breaker bar and 30mm socket to do his breaks a couple weeks ago, so a PM was sent to ask for them back.

Todd (Torradan) came to the rescue and went above and beyond to help me out. He quickly brought my tools back to me at home, and he had his old set of Drums/Bearings. He even went as far as to drive me back downtown, help me locate my car and repair the problem. We must have done the swap about 10 minutes in the parking lot at night in near darkness. Thanks very much Todd for all of your assistance. You got me out of a big jam. Beers to follow. :beerchug:

I didn't get any photos of the defective drum, but I will. I have needle bearings all over my hatch. The race was still on the spindle when the drum came (fell) off. The race luckily slipped off easily. I have a call into my parts supplier to see what they can do to assist me in getting some replacement parts. As it stands right now I am looking at replacing the following damaged items:

Drum w/Bearing
Shoes
Retainer Springs
ABS ring on the drum
ABS Sensor on the backing plate
Grease cap damaged in removal of the drum

Luckily I had the smarts to get off the road when I did or I would be into a whole other set of poroblems. I would say that I was less than 2KMS from loosing the wheel completely and then I would have been into a Spindle, Quarter Panel, Rear Bumper Cover and whatever I would have hit after loosing control.

Horse shoes, thats all I can say.