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 .
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| Lock wired and torqued with loctite to 60 ft/lbs. |
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| An amazingly complicated mechanism for the parking brake, this one is for the drivers side. |
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| What is what it looked like before it was cleaned |
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| After installation of the parking brake mechanisms |
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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.
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That's it for this week.
Cheers,
Lynn
More good work, Lynn. Cleaning the crud off an IRS is a lot of work. I think I used a lot of thinner and plastic tubs on mine. The parking brake mechanisms look to be in good shape. Do you even need to paint the wishbones? They look to be in great shape.
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DeleteThank you for your comment(s), I'm really thinking that the original finish looks pretty good and IMO has some value in itself, keeping the 50 year old finish too. What do you think?
Cheers,
Lynn
I leave the original finish whenever I can if it's in okay shape. If a little cleaning does the trick then wonderful!
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