Re: Larry's 1951 Club Sedan Project

Posted by Larry51 On 2014/7/12 17:55:35

Thanks for a great detailed report on what to do and not to do for good brakes. I see bits and pieces of good info in various posts so it is good to have most of what's needed in a single summary.

The adjusters all are RH thread and as far as I can tell, were interchangeble. As I mentioned, was wondering if they could be installed reversed or not. Looks like that is possible. I am sure I got that right anyhow.

In some ways I wish that my car came as a driver and not in pieces because a test drive to check brakes / tranny and a dozen other things would surely have helped me. So now when I take my first drive in it who knows what problems might show up. There are a few 'unknowns' with the brake recon I did. I had a lot of drums from maybe three different cars (- all 1951 /52 juniors so the same) so I picked what appeared to be the best drums / shoes. None of them had been cut as far as I could tell. The first drive will tell me whether I got it right! Most of he hardware was renewed (- all cylinders / hoses / lines) so thinking that it should only be drum to shoe fit that could possibly give me grief.