The weather here in Beauty downtown Gladstone, MO finally warmed up enough to go tackle the Biennial brake maintenance on my 95 F53 Ford chassis.
Pulled the front tires, removed the caliper slide pins, cleaned the mounting surfaces and pins, greased everything with synthetic grease and reassembled. Check wheel bearings. All was good.
Sucked out all the old brake fluid from the master cylinder with my turkey baster and refilled with new DOT 4 fluid. Got the wife to pump the brake pedal while I worked the bleeder. Installed the tires. Front brake maintenance done.
Pulled rear tires and then I got into trouble.
Checked the LR hub for play and found a bunch. OH NO!
Pulled the axle and bearing nuts and found a bad outer bearing.
The grease sparkled with metal particles. The whole rear end will have to come apart, cleaned and new bearings installed.
Fortunately I have set up a few ring and pinions in my younger days, so I can do all the necessary work.
Setting up the pinion depth and bearing preload shims can be time consuming. After the pinion is set, the ring gear backlash and bearing preload has to be set. Again time consuming.
Lucky for me I still have all the measuring devices from my days as a machinist.
Now that the rear end and hubs are back in place I had the wife pump the brake pedal again and all new brake fluid is in the rear calipers.
New 75-140 synthetic rear end grease installed, tires installed and MH is back on the ground.
Now all I have to do is the test drive.
Where did I lay my cell phone and the road service phone #?
Below is a picture with the pinion installed with new bearings.
Second picture is the old bearings, seals and left over new shims.
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Click For Full-Size Image. height=400 width=600
Richard
Pulled the front tires, removed the caliper slide pins, cleaned the mounting surfaces and pins, greased everything with synthetic grease and reassembled. Check wheel bearings. All was good.
Sucked out all the old brake fluid from the master cylinder with my turkey baster and refilled with new DOT 4 fluid. Got the wife to pump the brake pedal while I worked the bleeder. Installed the tires. Front brake maintenance done.
Pulled rear tires and then I got into trouble.
Checked the LR hub for play and found a bunch. OH NO!
Pulled the axle and bearing nuts and found a bad outer bearing.
The grease sparkled with metal particles. The whole rear end will have to come apart, cleaned and new bearings installed.
Fortunately I have set up a few ring and pinions in my younger days, so I can do all the necessary work.
Setting up the pinion depth and bearing preload shims can be time consuming. After the pinion is set, the ring gear backlash and bearing preload has to be set. Again time consuming.
Lucky for me I still have all the measuring devices from my days as a machinist.
Now that the rear end and hubs are back in place I had the wife pump the brake pedal again and all new brake fluid is in the rear calipers.
New 75-140 synthetic rear end grease installed, tires installed and MH is back on the ground.
Now all I have to do is the test drive.
Where did I lay my cell phone and the road service phone #?
Below is a picture with the pinion installed with new bearings.
Second picture is the old bearings, seals and left over new shims.
Click For Full-Size Image. height=400 width=600
Click For Full-Size Image. height=400 width=600Richard
