1951 Pontiac Chieftain

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Box of parts arrived today.
Typical, a wheel cylinder is on back order.

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Started on the brakes.
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Messy job. Don't take many pictures. Passenger front assembled. Need to do the rest, bleed the system then adjust.

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Crappy old brakes.
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Lower spring and adjuster off.
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Shoe retainers off.
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Shoes off.
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Cylinder off. Slightly disturbing, it was only held in with one bolt.
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Buggeration.
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Oh well. Greased everything up, found another bolt, put the new cylinder on.
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Shoes back on and zeroed.
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Shopping list made. Rear line looked kinda ropey too, so I bought a 25' length of brake line. That's tomorrow's task. Shame they only had a single flare tool, I have a nice double flare tool, but it's in England.

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Brake pipes stop progress.
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Hooli wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 2:51 am Brake pipes stop progress.
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Blimey somebody had their money's worth out of those shoes!
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mercrocker wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 11:26 am Blimey somebody had their money's worth out of those shoes!
"All new brakes", said the advert in 2015. I bought it in 2018 and between then it's gone about 6 miles; you be the judge.

Either way, it's getting new brakes now.
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Damn these bio-degradable linings.....!
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Broken tool stops play.
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Got the hard lines done to the back, tee is cleaned, rear left brake has new hardware.
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This can only be an improvement. The adjusters were stuck solid, hadn't been touched in a long time.

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