Re: 51Packard's....51 Packard
Posted by Charles On 2010/10/2 0:22:53
10-01-10
Please excuse any misspellings. It's just after midnight and I had an hour to mess with the car. First part was hooking up the media blaster to the compressor. I wanted a small piece of air hose, but the hardware store only had one with a swivel for $20! For $10 I bought 50' of light duty air hose. I'll just use that.
After that, it was too late to run power tools so I scraped at the front brake. Pic below shows crap pile. It's hard to see in the pic, but it is at least 2" thick.
When I got tired of scraping, I removed the cotter pin from the hub and removed the castellated nut. I was glad to see clean looking grease behind it. Took the wheel bearing out and it looked pretty good. As a mater of fact, all of the rubber on the front looked nice considering how old they are.
Loosened the shoes with the star adjuster and removed the drum brake. From the paint left on the springs, I note the yellow one is upper left, orange upper right and red is the bottom spring.
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Please excuse any misspellings. It's just after midnight and I had an hour to mess with the car. First part was hooking up the media blaster to the compressor. I wanted a small piece of air hose, but the hardware store only had one with a swivel for $20! For $10 I bought 50' of light duty air hose. I'll just use that.
After that, it was too late to run power tools so I scraped at the front brake. Pic below shows crap pile. It's hard to see in the pic, but it is at least 2" thick.
When I got tired of scraping, I removed the cotter pin from the hub and removed the castellated nut. I was glad to see clean looking grease behind it. Took the wheel bearing out and it looked pretty good. As a mater of fact, all of the rubber on the front looked nice considering how old they are.
Loosened the shoes with the star adjuster and removed the drum brake. From the paint left on the springs, I note the yellow one is upper left, orange upper right and red is the bottom spring.
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