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Tim in Charleston 
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Location: Arkansas
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 Topic: Cleaning brake housing
Posted: 20 Mar 2011 at 2:16pm |
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I am cleaning the brakes housing on the 1940 model B and I have most of the crud cleaned out but there is a small area I cannot get with any of my tools it located in the curve of the housing I tryed getting the 4 bolts off to take the final drive off but 2 bolts are not moving at all. if you go from the bottom of the housing I can feel it but I can't get to it with any tools any ideas? thanks
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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 20 Mar 2011 at 2:47pm |
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Probably use a pressure washer, just be sure you have good eye protection. Have you soaked the bolts with PB Blaster or anything like that? Have you gotten the brake bands out yet. If not tie a piece of stiff wire to them and pull it through. That will help get the new bands back in. That crud has been building up for almost seventy years so it will be tough.
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Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God.
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Dick L
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Posted: 20 Mar 2011 at 3:47pm |
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Those final drive bolts are not going to twist of so just get a longer handle on the wrench. If the longer handle doesn't move, then get a longer handle yet.
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 20 Mar 2011 at 3:56pm |
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i clean out the brake housings by poking with a screw driver to get as much loose as possible, then use an air blow gun with a 1/8 inch copper or stainless tube about 2 ft long on the end (gas or brake line).. bend it around, then poke it inside the housing and wobble around. cover your eyes. I stick a plug in the bottom hole, put 4-5 oz of dishwater soap in the top and a quart of water. Let it set a few minutes, pull the plug and stick a hose inside and wobble around... then blow out with air again.
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Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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48AC/WD
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Posted: 20 Mar 2011 at 3:56pm |
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Try the 50/50 ATF and Acetone mixture, information in another post was very interesting, and heres a good way to test out the info, if you need a better degreaser, use Purple Power", and let soak, do not get it on your hands or nice paint though, as it will kill the top layer of your skin like a sunburn, and it dissolved the paint in my parts washer tank.
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Alberta Phil
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Posted: 20 Mar 2011 at 4:07pm |
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That Purple degreaser hs the same ingredient in it a Oven cleaner. Caustic. I was using it to degrease my steel wheel tractors and switched to the Easy Off Oven cleaner. Faster and cheaper. Just make sure you use rubber gloves, overalls and eye protection!!
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steigerbro24
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Posted: 20 Mar 2011 at 6:39pm |
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I just replace my brakes and to tell the truth I don't think I got all of it out I had a mouse nest in the one side but there still some dirt at the bottom i need to get out , maybe with a air compressor, goodluck
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Dakota Dave
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Posted: 20 Mar 2011 at 6:43pm |
After the screw driver and other tools I bent a Wire coathanger into a squigly shape and poked in from the bottom and used Air Blower in the top finished it off with brake cleaner.
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