As for the bent backing plate, that sounds like the symptom of someone pulling the drum off with the shoes tight against it. During the last 40+ years, most of our cars have been worked on by a variety of people. Some of them were not necessarily very smart or very skilled. It is hard to say what was done and who did it. All of that aside, the only correct way to rebuild the brakes is to follow the steps in the FSM very precisely.
Paul W. -----Original Message----- From: Joe Strickland <jwstrick426@xxxxxxxxxx> To: Imperial Mail List <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 8:54 am Subject: IML: 62 Brake Redo To The Group;I received the brake assembly I ordered from Bob Hoffmeister and started working on the left front brake again. One thing I discovered while looking at the original brake shoe support plate assembly was that it looked slightly bowed looking at it on edge. I took my steel carpenter's square and held it against one side of the assembly and sure enough there was about a 1/32" to 1/16" bow to the assembly. I have cleaned up and freed the brake shoe adjusting cams after applying some liquid wrench ti the one I got from Bob. I cleaned all the surface rust I could get to and now I have some questions:
Should I get all the oil from the liquid wrench off and then treat the steel plates with a corrosion protector product?
If corrosion protector is called for, what brand and type would you recommend?
Should the brake cylinders have some 3-M caulking compound placed on the mounting surface of the dust shield/back-up plate? (The original dust shields that came with the car had no caulk around the wheel cylinders, but I have no way to know if it had some originally).
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