How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Jordan Baker

Front drums went back on and then I followed the bearing pre load steps in the manual. After installing the wheels I can feel very very very minor rocking in the right side. The left side has no rocking at all. I’m thinking the drum may not have fully seated on the splines.

Either that or you have too may shims in between the two bearings. Try and remove one and see if the play goes away.

[Jordan Baker]

Hi Rob.

It never had any shims in it when I took it apart. I’ll try it on another spline and see if it seats better.

As for the brake junctions. I’m not really worried about the exterior. I just wanted to get the small bits of compacted rust out from inside the flare ports. I’ve got the bits soaking in some evapo rust solution.

[super dave]

I find that using Glass instead of sand for blasting cleans up the surface really good without doing any damage to the piece.

[Jordan Baker]

Got the rear hubs and rear brake shoes back from the brake shop today. I also sandblasted all the other bits for the rear brakes and painted them. Lastly one of the shoes was missing a pin. So found a suitable bolt and turned it down to make a new pin. Maybe next week the rear wheels will be back on.

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Jordan Baker

Hi Rob.

It never had any shims in it when I took it apart. I’ll try it on another spline and see if it seats better. .

If moving it on the splines doesn't fix it, then it may be that the center spacer is too long for that particular knuckle. To discount the spacer, remove it altogether then re-assemble the hub and see if the freeplay disappears. If so, then the spacer is too long or there is some other part out of spec. The bearings should be at proper preload. Any chance you misplaced the outer bearing spacer (6.3074 on your parts illustration) or is it even applicable to your later hub?

[Jordan Baker]

New bearing cups and cones and new grease seals added to the rear drums. Tomorrow’s plan is to put the rear brakes back together and get the drums on and the wheels mounted.

[Jordan Baker]

Rear brakes are now all back together and installed. The parking brake cables have been installed. I used the ones available from Macs Antique Auto. They are very nice but need to be modified a bit. The end that goes into the drums needs about 6” of outer sheathing removed. I also added in another section of spring on the end of the cable. This keeps the cable end secure in the arm.

[Jordan Baker]

I also installed the hard brake lines yesterday.

[Jordan Baker]

Yesterday when I was installing the right side brake backing plate to the axle, one of the special shouldered bolts had its threads strip off. So this morning I went down to the machine shop and made up a new one.