What I found for 'brakes'

dr deuce · Post by **dr deuce** » Wed May 04, 2005 3:49 pm

I finally got around to pulling the pass rear wheel on my plow 42 Chev. I was unable to adjust the brakes and this one wheel was eating up all the output of the master.

As I pulled the wheel off, I saw the course screen/mesh. When I finally got the wheel off, I discovered that there were no linings!!! The mesh was originally part of the linings. Either I wore the linings down to/thru the rivets and they came off OR as I have seen before, the linings cracked and broke apart. The shoes were just bare metal awaiting new linings!
They never touched the drum because I could not adjust the wheel cylinder.

I had assumed that the adjuster mounted to the backing plate had either stripped its teeth or come off inside the drum. It was neither. What had happened is that the screws holding the cylinder on had loosened and that allowed the wheel cylinder to back away from the gear when I turned the adjusting bolt!

In 25 years of owning CCKWs and Chevs I have never seen either one of these things happen!

Steve AKA Dr Deuce

armydriver · Post by **armydriver** » Thu May 05, 2005 5:06 am

Thanks for the info Steve. I hate working on brakes and I need to re-do the wheel cylinders on the back axel on my truck. 'another summer job awaiting a lot of sweat and sore muscels.

dr deuce · Post by **dr deuce** » Fri May 06, 2005 6:19 pm

More:

because of the loose bolts, the backing plate was slightly bent! I had to hammer it back to almost correct.

Steve AKA Dr Deuce