Friday, March 22, 2019

Parking Brakes

Today I was able to spend a bit of time on JJ and cleaned, rebuilt and lubed the parking brake mechanism along with replacing the brake pads .

Lock wired and torqued with loctite to 60 ft/lbs.

An amazingly complicated mechanism for the parking brake, this one is for the drivers side.

What is what it looked like before it was cleaned

After installation of the parking brake mechanisms 

Beginning to clean/scrape some of the old grease and muck that has acquired over the past 50 years. Just starting and I'll bet I scraped at least two pounds of crud off the two lower control arms, after scraping I'll need to wash the rest off.

That's it for this week.
Cheers,
Lynn