a rear caliper locked up on the guide pin (the slide) and messed up my left rear pads. I went to replace the pads and the pin actually broke off in the caliper carrier. after a long while of work, I got what was left of the guide pin out, and found out that there is no place locally to get one until MONDAY (leaving me without a car for the weekend, and without a ride home from work tonight as well) so, instead of doing the normal thing and wait for a part and spend money on a rental or something, I modified my plans, and cut the pin, welded a bolt on the pin (8mm bolt, of the highest hardness I could find, SAE grade 8 equivalent) and after a bit of grinding, welding and testing, I polished the pin and greased it and put the brakes back together (with new pads) and it got me home tonight. "ghetto garage", but in an emergency, it kept my winter beater alive for another few days...
I know this is one of those "you should never do this" type of things, but it proves that done right you CAN do it in an emergency... if you have some skill and a lot of stones...
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