Posted by Jesse Ybarra
on 11/8/2009, 21:34:38, in reply to "Wow"
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: I've been working on the brakes on the
: "new" FC-170. What a mess! :-)
:
: When I pushed on the brake pedal, all five
: brake cylinders (4 wheel and the master)
: leak, the rear brake hose swelled up to
: about 1-1/2 times normal diameter and the
: 3/16 inch brake tubing along the rear axle
: oozed at several places where it rubbed
: against the U-bolts.
:
: For grins I decided to weigh the dirt that I
: scraped off of the left rear brake
: drum/backing plate. 1lb, 7oz. In a way,
: the grease all over everything was
: good...all the nuts & bolts came loose
: without any difficulty.
:
: The drum and backing plate are sitting in
: some cleaner.
:
: The master cylinder looks clean, smooth and
: does not appear to have been honed.
:
: The wheel cylinder is about .010
: "oversize" already and has a huge
: rust pit about 1/2 the length of the wheel
: cylinder that is about .030 deep.
:
: The brake fluid in the cylinder was more
: like gravy than brake fluid, so the pristine
: condition of the master cylinder bore is
: kind of surprising.
:
: Once the brake drum can be handled without
: gloves, I'll see how much it has been turned
: down.
:
: My first inclination is to get the Jeep so
: it will stop, get it to steer, get it to run
: [it runs, but I need to hold the choke
: closed with a screwdriver until I get the
: choke cable lubed up] and then drive it
: around awhile to get to know it....and then
: [when the bank account is up to it] pull the
: cab & bed off to work on it
: "seriously".
:
: Eric
:
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