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My Toronado hasn't been road worthy in a while due to some sketchy brakes. Today I started the rear drums and found that the shoes had been completely glazed over. I'm assuming something got stuck at some point and overheated the brakes. Drum brakes are such a mess to work on, I still do not understand why they are less costly to make than disks. I got the left side back together, but I didn't even start on the right. When I pulled them apart I found that the retainer springs and pins were being held there with not much more than caked on rust and a prayer. So over to rock auto where the complete hardware kit is less expensive than the price to ship it. Oh well, it will be here Wednesday. I also ordered some caliper pins for the front because I can feel those sticking. I could probably just grease them, but new ones are $6 a pair and the ones on there are probably 42 years old.

Been Busy helping my son who bought a fixer upper house to move his growing family into. The best I have been able to do is run both the Escalade and SS through a new Touchfree auto wash system near my house and it did an outstanding job. $18 gets you an under-carriage wash, Power wash rims and then a multi-stage wash with two different soap soaks and then a tri-color wax, rainX application and one other thing I forget, but I felt for the money it was worth it as both autos are shinny and clean.