He-man air tools

   Eddie has slowly been accumulating tools over the years, among them an air compressor and some air tools and a retractable hose reel(all Craftsman, naturally). The other day, we finally broke them out to work on the 1968 Oldsmobile Delta 88. I needed to do some brake inspection and bleeding, because I didn’t like the stopping perfomance last time out. When I first got the air wrench, Adam had dreams of doing a 5 second tire change just like the NASCAR boys, so I let them both him and Aaron have at the car with the fancy tools. Adam jacked up the car, I showed them how to use jack stands, and while I was at it, I of course showed them how old fashioned drum brakes worked. I even let Adam start the car. Finally, I showed them how to tighten the lug nuts in a star pattern. Don’t worry about being too tight; the little air wrench doesn’t have enough torque to overdo it, and I showed the boys how to tighten them by hand afterwards with a ‘real’ lug wrench.
   I had to make a brake adjustment, but I was relieved to find that the cylinders don’t appear to be stuck. I need to bleed the front next.
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