IML: 63-66 brake adjustments - they are self-adjusting

[Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>]

Remember that on the 1963-66 cars, they are equipped
with the Bendix brakes.  When you redo them, take the
expanding pin with star-wheel out and clean the
threads with a wire wheel.  Lubricate threads with
grease and reinstall upon reassembly.

When you back the car up and slap on the brakes, the
action of doing so spins the star wheel and they are
self-adjusting.  This is a beig step up from the prior
designs.

 
-Kenyon


--- dbelan5739@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Don't feel so bad. I did the samething with my 65
> this weekend. My buddy and me changed the rear
> cylinders and bled the brakes. The only problem was
> the pedal travel was too long. They grabbed really
> good, it just took about 75% of travel to get them
> there. So we came back and adjusted the fronts with
> the star wheel. The only problem was that to adjust
> it to get the right amount of drag we had to turn
> the opposite way of what the manual said. With all
> that done now it stops better then my daily driver,
> but that was never great even from day one.
>  
> David
> 65 pulm-plum 
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HavADope@xxxxxxx
> To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: JosephStil@xxxxxxx
> Sent: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 15:19:09 EDT
> Subject: IML: 1960 Brake update.
> 
> 
> First off I want to thank everyone who offered up
> some advice on my brake saga. As always it's
> something so simple, yet can consume so much time.
> Kenyon offered to come up and give me a hand on the
> brakes. I finally accepted. As a last ditch effort I
> crawled back under her and started checking
> everything AGAIN for the 100th time. Guess what-
> There it is - All the adjusting cams were adjusted
> so the brakes were within a fraction of an inch from
> touching the drums. The only problem is they were
> all adjusted in the wrong direction. The front 4 and
> the front 2 on the rear are self energized and need
> to be adjusted in the direction of the wheel going
> forward, while the back 2 on the rears need to be
> adjusted in the opposite direction. I feel soooooo
> Stupid. I turned all of them in the right direction,
> right to where they needed to be. Clammered out from
> underneath her and Voila' pedal now only travels
> maybe halfway at the most with the booster
> connected. Very comparible to a modern day car. Heck
> the wife can even drive her now. 
> I am so elated, and yet very irritated at myself for
> taken them all in the wrong direction. Not 1 or 2,
> but all of them. I was able to catch Kenyon about
> five miles from his house. So I saved the Saturday
> for both of us. Thanks Kenyon, and thank all of you
> on the list. 
> Marc Lamp
> 1960 4drht.
> 

Kenyon Wills
 
 






















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