A little OT, but since it's your turn to be in deep snow, I thought that I'd share this with you guys.


My Ironman has been laid up for about 2 weeks now, thanks to heavy snowpack in the wheels.
A few weeks ago, I packed the entire rear of the truck with snow during a 600 mile drive across the interior. I mean, it was jammed in EVERYWHERE -I couldn't open the rear hatch, I couldn't even see my gas tank, the springs were packed as well as the wheels. But even worse, the brake calipers were packed with snow.

I broke out what snow that I could with sticks and scrapers (it was very cold, and laying on my back under the truck was not any fun.) I even parked it in a heated bay for 18 hours. A fair amount of the snow melted off, but the stuff in and around my brake calipers just melted and refroze. It continued this thaw-freeze cycle for a week until the rear calipers locked up altogether. This boiled my brake fluid and ate up the pads within a few miles.

So, now I'm looking at: New pads and rotors (all around, no sense in doing half), a total brake fluid flush and fill, and a new master cylinder (I think that the increase in line pressure thanks to the iced calipers lack of travel burst a seal). Either way, it's leaking now.
This isn't all bad this gives me a chance to get rid of my eBay cheapie pads/rotors (lecarautomobiles, avoid like the plague) and get the same good ones that we had on the Dragon (r1concepts).

Moral of the story:
Once you bust that snow out of the wheels and calipers, use some WD-40 or anything else that'll displace moisture. Use a lot, and let the calipers dry out before venturing back out into the cold.