For some reason, my cars never STAY fixed for long...
I got a good one today!
Driving to Portland, my rear passenger brake shoes decided to stick themselves to the drum, and do all sorts of hot stuff. Long story short, I had to wait until the drum cooled... which took almost 45 minutes then *pop*... the real problem being that something happened in there and it lunched my axle seal... 
I figured that I could make it back to Salem (I was just south of the Terwilliger Curves, so about 35 miles) so I drove off the exit, around the top of the over pass, and then back down to the freeway. As I drove, I was noticing that the rear end was making some noise. I continued driving, trying to get home.
About 20 miles from home, I decided to pull off into a truck stop and crawl under the car to see if there was anything blatantly wrong... and there was... the entire inside of the drum, and inner side of the tire/wheel were covered in gear oil... CRAP!!!
At this point, the rear was pretty much out of lube, so I drove slowly on the side of the freeway still trying to get home. I pulled off into a gas station 10 miles north of Salem to let the rear end cool down, and I managed to jam my shift linkage a bit, so I had to jump out while it was raining, and sort it out, which took all of 30 seconds... poor me! 
Got that fixed, let the car sit for a bit longer, then drove until I saw the Keizer exit, and drove to Schucks where my buddy Henry works. I ordered a new wheel bearing and axle shaft seal for the one side, until I can afford to go through the whole rear, assuming that it is savable.
I drove carefully from Keizer to my apartment in N. Salem. The rear end sounded like it was popping a bit, due to having a severe lack of the special sauce bath it likes to live in. The parts should be in Saturday, so I will get it back on the road probably Monday, when I am in class.
If it's not one thing, it's another!
Now I need to track down 2 other things:
1. Weird tapping noise I get at anything above about 2k RPM,
2. Idle vibration that goes away when I press the clutch in.
More fun for me!
~THOR~
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) reinstalled it (this is the one that came with the car, the "new" one had bent metering rods, amongst other issues) and voila! It runs!
