You know, I'm not a cop-hater, but today....

[TorchTheWitch]

124. could you work out a trade with someone?

Wheel cylinders and brakes are things that a lot of men know how to do. I'd get on the phone/computer to everyone I knew male or female and see if any of the men you know and the husbands/boyfriends/brothers/fathers/sons of all the women you know would be willing to do the work on a trade basis if you buy the parts. Maybe offer to do their lawn in trade or help with putting a fence up, clean gutters, anything you can think of just so you won't have to spend any cash for the labor.

Also, does your local high school have a shop class or automotive class where maybe you could finagle through the teacher some kind of extra credit points or something like that if one of the kids that knows how to do this did it for you or maybe the teacher could do it as a demonstration for the class?

What about any of your co-workers or the co-workers of your husband or anyone in their families that could do the work and be willing to either do it for free or on some kind of trade basis?

Trying to think of what I would do in such a situation since I'm in financial hell at the moment as well. I think your best bet is to reach out to a huge network of everyone you can think of as well as their family members that would know how to do the work and be willing to either do it for free (a lot of people are just nice like that especially those that like to tinker with cars anyway) or work out some kind of trade for the labor. I have four brothers, and two of them know how to do more simple repairs like this, so I'd likely go to them first.