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Couldn’t find a cotter pin for the castle nut? Just add a second nut. At least that’s what I thought must’ve been the idea when I took the hubcap off and saw this. But then...

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After I pulled the outer nut off, the inner one wasn’t even screwed on - it was too big for the threads. What? What were they thinking?

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Taking things apart. Blurry because it was getting dark. Didn’t really have time to do anything this weekend except spend a few minutes pulling things off the car.

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Brakes don’t look as bad as I thought they would. Might not need to rebuild the calipers at all. Just replace the pads and hoses. One area of the inner fender was bubbling, and I stuck a screwdriver through it - but it’s also an area that needs to be reinforced with thicker metal for rally use anyway, so killing two birds with one stone when I weld that up.

...also need to learn to weld things up.