WC Brakes
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Topic: WC Brakes
Posted By: BennyLumpkin
Subject: WC Brakes
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2010 at 7:17pm
after the pulls the other night I noticed something binding in my left final drive then it quit....I was using the brakes to keep straight going down the track before this started. Now I found last night as I was unloading I have no left brakes....did I break a band? I've never had the finals apart....needs final seals anyways so I want to do it all at one shot.
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Central PA Allis Express
1934 WC254
1945 WF
1945 WC135755
1951 WD68085
1953 WD45-150217
1957 WD45D-230744D
B110
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Posted By: Dave(inMA)
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2010 at 9:20pm
Benny, the grinding noise you heard might be a brake band worn down to the rivets... which then grind groves into the brake drum, leading to no braking power. Or you might have broken the band. Either way, you can change the brake bands w/o taking the finals apart......though if you have leaking seals, fixing those would be a fine idea.
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WC, CA, D14, WD45
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Posted By: BennyLumpkin
Date Posted: 16 Sep 2010 at 6:42pm
its not grinding....it was hanging up a bit, then quit...you could feel it grab a bit....at first I thought I messed the rear up as it felt like when I'd grenade 10 bolt chevy rears but then the brakes stopped....well stopped stopping lol
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Central PA Allis Express
1934 WC254
1945 WF
1945 WC135755
1951 WD68085
1953 WD45-150217
1957 WD45D-230744D
B110
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Posted By: Gary in da UP
Date Posted: 16 Sep 2010 at 7:58pm
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Pull the fenders and brake covers and have a looky-see, prolly got rusted , broken return springs, iffen your lucky thats all you'll need to fix.
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Posted By: Rick of HopeIN
Date Posted: 16 Sep 2010 at 8:05pm
does a WC have brakes? I pull my levers and nothin much happens
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1951 B, 1937 WC, 1957 D14, -- Thanks and God Bless
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Posted By: BennyLumpkin
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2010 at 4:13pm
my brakes actually worked really well until this happened....The foot brakes are kinda worthless though...I mean they're good for slowing up and slow stopping but if you need some whoa power you gotta grab a hand brake...with all the linkage's to make the footbrakes work, it takes all the leverage out of the system.
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Central PA Allis Express
1934 WC254
1945 WF
1945 WC135755
1951 WD68085
1953 WD45-150217
1957 WD45D-230744D
B110
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