About a year ago the brakes on my IROC weren’t working so well. Needless to say this was a bit of a problem. In an attempt to save some money (I’m convinced that taking your car to a shop just allows them to rip you off) I decided to do the work myself. No sweat, right? I’ve worked on cars for the past several years doing minor things.

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I did a little bit of research online and figured I’d go down to the local Auto Zone and purchase the parts needed to fix my problem. Sixty-five dollars later I was back in my driveway changing out the master cylinder (the thing that holds the brake fluid). For a competent car mechanic it may have taken them all of 20 minutes to change it out, but though I’ve worked on cars before, I’ve never been necessarily mechanically inclined. What should have taken 20 minutes, wound up consuming the better part of my day.

Nonetheless, I finished and was ready to take it for a test drive. Well, wouldn’t you know the problem persisted? I was lucky that the car could even stop from a 5 mph roll. Read the rest of this entry