These are some of the best spent minutes of my day. Seeing what you three are up to. Nicely done and I can’t believe how rowdy that little Comet sounds.
Hi Lee and Shannon , happy Victoria Day long weekend ! You have been very busy lately with Shannon's car the '56 pickup and I forgot about the I beam bending . Glad things all worked out . Nice doors ... sometimes we luck out and someone with an old cottage doesn't want certain cool things and they end up at a local land fill . Door knob hard ware can often be found even if the door isn't needed . Yes , even the crystal door knob sets do show up from time to time . If no one takes them they just get burned on the scrap wood pile . Have a great week !
Brown Sugar has to be one of the coolest shop trucks on the planet. I mean actual working shop trucks and not some SEMA booth princess. Brakes are one of my least favourite jobs to do and this episode reminds me I have to check the rotors on my van I can feel a bit of a pulse in the pedal , the pads are good so I think I have a warped rotor.
LGKustoms: What you have there are duel piston full floating calipers. There are a few things to know about them when replacing the pads. (1) The caliper floats on the 2 pins (bolts) top and bottom, which have a perforated sleeve/bushing that needs to be checked. You said it was hard to get things apart so I would make sure to check these sleeves/bushings. If they wear out and are not replaced it will cause the mounting hole in the anchor plate to elongate causing the caliper to misalign and cause the brakes to bind. This could be why the top of the pad was worn out more than the bottom. (2) You also mentioned that the one piston was harder to compress. I always seated and extended 3 or 4 times before completely seating before replacing pads just to loosen them up. Also when doing these full floating calipers you need to acquire a piece of .020 / .030 shim that is able to fit between the pad and pistons about the same size as the pad or 2 separate ones to fit between at both pistons and pad. Once the shims are in place you then press the brake pedal until all pads are fully against the rotor and shims are snug or tight. If the shims are to tight you can loosen the piston-mounting bolt to get them out. Retighten the mounting bolts if loosened and then step on brake until you have a hard pedal. Then check that the rotors turn with very little resistance. If they are still dragging it could be the pistons have excessive resistance or that sleeve is worn causing the caliper to misalign and bind. If you can turn the rotors by hand then take it for a drive down the road and check for excessive heat and binding after the short drive. P.S. The shims are to set the caliper and pins in alignment very close beforehand. I did not come up with this process. It was in a Chilton’s repair book I have somewhere from the 60s / 70s. I did a quick check for a parts diagram and came up with these two links if they work. Parts www.ebay.com/itm/393460104240?chn=ps&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&amdata=enc%3A17yBQ-IWWR_e8NMtFKvn01g38&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=393460104240&targetid=1644837435723&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=1014127&poi=&campaignid=20125739985&mkgroupid=149128855676&rlsatarget=pla-1644837435723&abcId=9312975&merchantid=131363253&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjLqimZPyhgMVM83CBB3BzAdnEAQYASABEgJzW_D_BwE Pic Diagram near bottom of page www.fordification.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38822
Cool! Thanks for all the info! The brakes seem to be working fine, other than once maybe every three months the drivers side caliper will stick for a few miles, then figures itself out and is good again for another three months or so. Next time I have it apart I'll check out sleeves and bushings. Thanks again
I really enjoy the videos I watch it for Boston Massachusetts . Where they build my rat rod go to talk to you about my interior I love the interior work you make the seats beautiful
Lee, sometimes the rubber brake lines will fail and cause the caliper to stick. I've run into that issue quite a few times. You might wanna check them out. Anyhow... another great video. Brown sugar is looking great! Love it
I noticed that the caliper mounting bolts and pad guide pins on the driver side appear to be correct or incorrect, but they are reversed on the drinker side. same bolts but in differing locations. This may be why the odd pad wear. I made the comment before I watched the drinker side reassembly so you may have noticed it when you took the driver side apart again. Hi from Langford BTW
Lee I have a 1997 k1500 suburban. I did a suspension over haul on it new ball joints, bushes and brakes. My supplier decided to take three months out. Holiday. And some of the parts he got me was wrong. Especially the brakes. For some reason I had lots of trouble with pistons being the wrong bore size to being to long and not sitting back in the callipers. In the end I bit the bullet and got new callipers and pads. Well I must of trapped a ball joint rubber as one has perished away. So that’s about the only thing I need to do to take it for it’s mot (inspection) it’s funny what with a divorce and being messed about with parts I lost interest in this car. But after being sat for at least fifteen years, she started up with little trouble. And I have re gone through all the previous work. I only parked it up in park not applying the e brake and all is fine. Im looking forwards to going the coast in it this summer and enjoying it. Shipping is crazy at the min and with tax it’s nearly as much as the parts themselves. Anyways that’s my story. Glad your both well. And the way Doris says this seat is mine!
I know the struggle. Shannon and I used to race a Ford Cortina and I had to buy everything out of England. It really sucks when you get the parts and they’re wrong! Know anyone that needs a set EBC Yellowstuff pads for a cortina? Cause I had a set special made then discovered someone swapped out the calipers to the bigger estate calipers
Trick I learned on brakes when you go to compress the caliper crack the bleed screw so when you push in the cylinders you're not pushing dirty brake fluid into your master you pushing it out the brake bleeder helps keep the pistons from a sticking and you don't need to bleed your brakes just add fluid afterwards
Oh jeez I don’t know haha I have rust free front fenders and doors I started prepping for paint years ago. They’re in the attic. I keep getting distracted with other cars
At the moment that I was seeing that you put the suspension back without reinforcing it, I was grabbing my head!!! because the ends are already fatigued, so they will last less time when they are straight, most likely they will bend again in a short time, I would advise you to reinforce them as soon as possible, or perhaps design new oversized ones that are stronger! ! greetings from Argentina...
They didn’t bend from regular driving, they bent from me using them as a jacking point. Right in the middle. As long as I don’t make that mistake again, they shouldn’t have any issues. And if they do, I can always reinforce them then.
Great video. It’s a bit spooky that those bent, but taking in the account of the weight of the Cummins, I guess it explains it. Question, those radius arms are cut with a pair of plates added. Is this to clearance the tie rod for the drop axle? Most drop beams have tie rod end drops to accommodate this. Thanks.
@@LGKustoms yeh, it’s interesting to me, as I’m looking to cut and step a pair of the stamped steel arms, about 3/4 to 1 inch. I want to get an additional drop from shorting the coils that amount, without putting the rear rubber bushings in a bind. Just gives me another option to look into. Thanks.
Nice work with the I-beams! Did i hear right, you have to pay 15% taxes? I wish we have that low taxes too. I pay around 27% taxes, when i buy car or motorcycle parts from US. So, i have to do some homework what is reasonable to buy from US and what is not.
You know ------ I listen to Coast to Coast at night -- with Ian Punnett on the weekends ---- and he says that --- Aliens eat the Canadians first ------ Maybe that's why venders on the U.S. side are afraid they might not get paid for their merch ----- Ah! ----- the left front caliper was tight --- you got back in it again and freed it up ------- by? ------ using that C-clamp on it? ----------- you had the camera out the driver's side ---- the bottom of the fender was flopping in and out ---- You mentioned after getting Brown Sugar back on the ground and a trip --- would see what the Stance is ----- back at the shop with you beside it ---- looked level to me front to back ------ Thank You for the video ----Never had Twin I - Beam ----- learned something today ------ Rodney
@@LGKustoms -----Art Bell --- is still on ----- What ------ I thought he had passed on ----- Ya he did ----- Not sure if you can pick up KVI -57 AM up there but he is still on--- believe it is Friday or Saturday Night about 10 PM ----- Art was good to listen to ------ The guy in a small plane --- restricted area ---- Over Area 51--- talking to Art --- Art saying --- You Better Get Out Of There --- and up came the Fighter Jets ----- and that was the last we heard from him ---- Had a Good Voice for Radio ------- He was pretty cool --- Rodney
You need a 5 ton porta power with a axle beam kit....I still bend these axles and (radius rods with the 10 ton porta power.) On my alignment machine. My old 352 F 350 4speed with holmes 440 still is a stump puller. I'm a 70 yr. old ASE Certified master mechanic. Now I just sit back in the office and advise my Techs. I advise you to update calipers. Do a brake fluid exchange.
Is the USA or CANADA at fault for the stupid shipping/customs fiasco? It makes no sense to me! Common borders, language, history, why did it end up like this?
These are some of the best spent minutes of my day. Seeing what you three are up to. Nicely done and I can’t believe how rowdy that little Comet sounds.
Pomp
Glad to see you got Brown Surgar all fixed up. very cool truck!
Hi Lee and Shannon , happy Victoria Day long weekend ! You have been very busy lately with Shannon's car the '56 pickup and I forgot about the I beam bending . Glad things all worked out . Nice doors ... sometimes we luck out and someone with an old cottage doesn't want certain cool things and they end up at a local land fill . Door knob hard ware can often be found even if the door isn't needed . Yes , even the crystal door knob sets do show up from time to time . If no one takes them they just get burned on the scrap wood pile . Have a great week !
Happy Victoria day, from Victoria!
Brown Sugar has to be one of the coolest shop trucks on the planet. I mean actual working shop trucks and not some SEMA booth princess.
Brakes are one of my least favourite jobs to do and this episode reminds me I have to check the rotors on my van I can feel a bit of a pulse in the pedal , the pads are good so I think I have a warped rotor.
Pulsed rotors are great for foot stimulation. Keeps things fun on the road!
Cool shop truck and that comet is bad to the bone . Sounds great
Thanks! There is a full build playlist on the comet
LGKustoms: What you have there are duel piston full floating calipers. There are a few things to know about them when replacing the pads. (1) The caliper floats on the 2 pins (bolts) top and bottom, which have a perforated sleeve/bushing that needs to be checked. You said it was hard to get things apart so I would make sure to check these sleeves/bushings. If they wear out and are not replaced it will cause the mounting hole in the anchor plate to elongate causing the caliper to misalign and cause the brakes to bind. This could be why the top of the pad was worn out more than the bottom.
(2) You also mentioned that the one piston was harder to compress. I always seated and extended 3 or 4 times before completely seating before replacing pads just to loosen them up. Also when doing these full floating calipers you need to acquire a piece of .020 / .030 shim that is able to fit between the pad and pistons about the same size as the pad or 2 separate ones to fit between at both pistons and pad. Once the shims are in place you then press the brake pedal until all pads are fully against the rotor and shims are snug or tight. If the shims are to tight you can loosen the piston-mounting bolt to get them out. Retighten the mounting bolts if loosened and then step on brake until you have a hard pedal. Then check that the rotors turn with very little resistance. If they are still dragging it could be the pistons have excessive resistance or that sleeve is worn causing the caliper to misalign and bind. If you can turn the rotors by hand then take it for a drive down the road and check for excessive heat and binding after the short drive.
P.S. The shims are to set the caliper and pins in alignment very close beforehand.
I did not come up with this process. It was in a Chilton’s repair book I have somewhere from the 60s / 70s.
I did a quick check for a parts diagram and came up with these two links if they work.
Parts www.ebay.com/itm/393460104240?chn=ps&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&amdata=enc%3A17yBQ-IWWR_e8NMtFKvn01g38&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=393460104240&targetid=1644837435723&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=1014127&poi=&campaignid=20125739985&mkgroupid=149128855676&rlsatarget=pla-1644837435723&abcId=9312975&merchantid=131363253&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjLqimZPyhgMVM83CBB3BzAdnEAQYASABEgJzW_D_BwE
Pic Diagram near bottom of page www.fordification.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38822
Cool! Thanks for all the info! The brakes seem to be working fine, other than once maybe every three months the drivers side caliper will stick for a few miles, then figures itself out and is good again for another three months or so.
Next time I have it apart I'll check out sleeves and bushings.
Thanks again
Nice fix Lee 😎
I really enjoy the videos I watch it for Boston Massachusetts . Where they build my rat rod go to talk to you about my interior I love the interior work you make the seats beautiful
Great video
-Spanky
Thanks
Great video, I'm also a car guy from Canada (Nova Scotia). Yes ordering stuff from the US is 💰💵💵💵💰💰
COOL VIDEO NICE WORK.😇👍✌🏁🏁
Thank you
Thanks for sharing!
Lee, sometimes the rubber brake lines will fail and cause the caliper to stick. I've run into that issue quite a few times. You might wanna check them out. Anyhow... another great video. Brown sugar is looking great! Love it
Brakes seem okay actually. This was filmed a few weeks ago and I haven’t had any issues so far.
great job!
Thanks
I noticed that the caliper mounting bolts and pad guide pins on the driver side appear to be correct or incorrect, but they are reversed on the drinker side. same bolts but in differing locations. This may be why the odd pad wear. I made the comment before I watched the drinker side reassembly so you may have noticed it when you took the driver side apart again. Hi from Langford BTW
I noticed that as well, but it shouldn’t effect the way they work or anything.
You really get your use out of brake pads 😂😂
I paid for the whole brake pad, I’m gonna use the whole brake pad! 😆
Wow you really did bend them 😂😂
Love your channel BTW !
Thanks!
Lee I have a 1997 k1500 suburban. I did a suspension over haul on it new ball joints, bushes and brakes. My supplier decided to take three months out. Holiday. And some of the parts he got me was wrong. Especially the brakes. For some reason I had lots of trouble with pistons being the wrong bore size to being to long and not sitting back in the callipers. In the end I bit the bullet and got new callipers and pads. Well I must of trapped a ball joint rubber as one has perished away. So that’s about the only thing I need to do to take it for it’s mot (inspection) it’s funny what with a divorce and being messed about with parts I lost interest in this car. But after being sat for at least fifteen years, she started up with little trouble. And I have re gone through all the previous work. I only parked it up in park not applying the e brake and all is fine. Im looking forwards to going the coast in it this summer and enjoying it. Shipping is crazy at the min and with tax it’s nearly as much as the parts themselves. Anyways that’s my story. Glad your both well. And the way Doris says this seat is mine!
I know the struggle. Shannon and I used to race a Ford Cortina and I had to buy everything out of England. It really sucks when you get the parts and they’re wrong!
Know anyone that needs a set EBC Yellowstuff pads for a cortina? Cause I had a set special made then discovered someone swapped out the calipers to the bigger estate calipers
I will certainly ask about. There’s some early ford running the strip over here
Trick I learned on brakes when you go to compress the caliper crack the bleed screw so when you push in the cylinders you're not pushing dirty brake fluid into your master you pushing it out the brake bleeder helps keep the pistons from a sticking and you don't need to bleed your brakes just add fluid afterwards
Good trick!
in 74 I drove a Ford service truck and had to have the I beams tweaked to align the front end
Cool content sir, when are u going to paint brown sugar brown ?
Oh jeez I don’t know haha
I have rust free front fenders and doors I started prepping for paint years ago. They’re in the attic.
I keep getting distracted with other cars
At the moment that I was seeing that you put the suspension back without reinforcing it, I was grabbing my head!!! because the ends are already fatigued, so they will last less time when they are straight, most likely they will bend again in a short time, I would advise you to reinforce them as soon as possible, or perhaps design new oversized ones that are stronger! ! greetings from Argentina...
They didn’t bend from regular driving, they bent from me using them as a jacking point. Right in the middle.
As long as I don’t make that mistake again, they shouldn’t have any issues.
And if they do, I can always reinforce them then.
@@LGKustoms Hello.. ahh of course those ends are not a good support point... well then they should last straight... regards
Watching again$$$ a dollar to wards you!!
Thanks
@@LGKustoms no worries
Great video. It’s a bit spooky that those bent, but taking in the account of the weight of the Cummins, I guess it explains it.
Question, those radius arms are cut with a pair of plates added. Is this to clearance the tie rod for the drop axle? Most drop beams have tie rod end drops to accommodate this. Thanks.
Yea it’s to clear the tie rods. Not sure what the advantage is over the tie rod drops, but they seem to work fine
@@LGKustoms yeh, it’s interesting to me, as I’m looking to cut and step a pair of the stamped steel arms, about 3/4 to 1 inch. I want to get an additional
drop from shorting the coils that amount, without putting the rear rubber bushings in a bind. Just gives me another option to look into. Thanks.
Nice work with the I-beams! Did i hear right, you have to pay 15% taxes? I wish we have that low taxes too. I pay around 27% taxes, when i buy car or motorcycle parts from US. So, i have to do some homework what is reasonable to buy from US and what is not.
If I do the customs stuff myself I pay 15%. If UPS delivers they charge 25%-50%
@@LGKustoms Its 27% if i do it myself in here, but if i find something cool and useful from the inside of EU(which i usually dont), then its 0%
You know ------ I listen to Coast to Coast at night -- with Ian Punnett on the weekends ---- and he says that --- Aliens eat the Canadians first ------ Maybe that's why venders on the U.S. side are afraid they might not get paid for their merch ----- Ah! ----- the left front caliper was tight --- you got back in it again and freed it up ------- by? ------ using that C-clamp on it? ----------- you had the camera out the driver's side ---- the bottom of the fender was flopping in and out ---- You mentioned after getting Brown Sugar back on the ground and a trip --- would see what the Stance is ----- back at the shop with you beside it ---- looked level to me front to back ------ Thank You for the video ----Never had Twin I - Beam ----- learned something today ------ Rodney
Do you prefer Art Bell or George Noory Coast to Coast?
@@LGKustoms -----Art Bell --- is still on ----- What ------ I thought he had passed on ----- Ya he did ----- Not sure if you can pick up KVI -57 AM up there but he is still on--- believe it is Friday or Saturday Night about 10 PM ----- Art was good to listen to ------ The guy in a small plane --- restricted area ---- Over Area 51--- talking to Art --- Art saying --- You Better Get Out Of There --- and up came the Fighter Jets ----- and that was the last we heard from him ---- Had a Good Voice for Radio ------- He was pretty cool --- Rodney
You need a 5 ton porta power with a axle beam kit....I still bend these axles and (radius rods with the 10 ton porta power.) On my alignment machine. My old 352 F 350 4speed with holmes 440 still is a stump puller. I'm a 70 yr. old ASE Certified master mechanic. Now I just sit back in the office and advise my Techs. I advise you to update calipers. Do a brake fluid exchange.
I just looked in to the beam kit. Pretty cool. Could probably building something similar easy enough
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Raybestos, I had no idea they were still in buisness . I thought Oriellys ceramic put them outta buisness.
I use Raybestos all the time. I’ve never heard of Oreillys Ceramics.
I mean oriellys brand pads and shoes.
@@martinjay5906 Oreillys is just an American franchise. We don’t have them here in Canada. I’ve seen Oreillys watching Vice Grip garage through!
Is the USA or CANADA at fault for the stupid shipping/customs fiasco? It makes no sense to me! Common borders, language, history, why did it end up like this?
Oh man, that question is way above my pay grade haha