|> You can buy that caliper from HF for around $10. | |Thanks, but no thanks. ;) | |> You did lubricate the starwheel threads and under the cap with |> white grease, right? | |Uh no... I used black grease with MoS in it. :/ |Next time I'm going to use "anti-seize". :)
White lithium grease is the standard
|Did one side of my front disk brakes with "anti-seize" and that side |worked better. Enough better- to make the pickup pull to that side |when braking... it's never done that before... so I took the other |side back apart and cleaned off the MoS grease and replace it with |anti- seize and it braked straight again and braked extra good too. | |Sounds like bullshit but it's true, I swear. :)
We are accustomed to a libeal dose of BS here.:)
| |Yes. :) ...and I'll raise you using a hunk of power hacksaw blade |and a hand grinder by removing the lip if it's high enough to |warrant it in my eyes.
If you have a lip, you need to turn the drum and/or buy a new drum.
|I think the grind stone I use for that is called a "plug" it's wider |than it is round. Like 3" wide and 1+1/2" in diameter with a steel |5/8-11 thread inside. | |> Personally, I like to replace ALL the springs(especially) and |> hardware each time. |> Rex in Fort Worth | |It's wet there and sounds like a good idea and have done that on |other vehicles too. On my '75 F150 the original springs (seems like |I changed them once tho) prob'ly still look better than those in |certain parts of the country after a just one year.
When I was a young guy working at a service station in 1969, the resident mechanic demonstrated the need to change springs. He was doing a brake job on a
2-year-old car (routine at that time). He held both the new and the return springs before he re-assembled it. Then he dropped then new spring from a height of about 18" onto the concrete shop floor, producing a nice "TINGGG" sound, then rebounded a few feet away. Then he repeated with the 2-year-old spring, which still look new. This time it went "Thud" and hardly bounced at all. Repeated the demonstration for the other springs on that wheel, with the same results. I should note that this is in Texas, no salt. I repeat this test every time I'm wavering on buying new brake springs. Still works every time. I recommend it. Rex in Fort Worth