Brake system overhaul - '71

[73Coupe]

Calipers reassembled with the rebuild kits from Raybestos....

One of these kits i purchased about 3 or 4 years ago (top box). The other one I purchased last month. Notice the baggie on the inside of one of the boxes had that infamous word on them....which didn't match the acronym on the box.

 

[73Coupe]

The rotor shields or whatever they are known as were soaked in Rust 911 for a few days and cleaned down to bare steel. On some cars I have seen these galvanized, but these appeared to have no factory coating thus were at the mercy of the elements. Heavy pitting, but still good.

New Timken bearings....

 

[Boydsdodge]

Looks great.
I think some dust shields were black.

 

[73Coupe]

Rotor shields painted....

Rotors turned.

Unfortunately, they machined one down to the minimum thickness of 1.180". I guess it may have been warped. The other one is at 1.210".

 

[73Coupe]

I decided to go ahead and restore the caliper brackets too, mainly because I wanted to experiment with a homemade rust chelation solution.

Evaporust on the left, homemade on the right:

And it's working!

 

[73Coupe]

Brackets cleaned to bare steel after a couple days in the chelation bath.

EDIT: here are the final painted brackets.

Did another round of plating on Sunday, various fender bolts, engine compartment items, & brake hardware

The caliper pin locating brackets were finished in black chromate.

And finally, the NOS combination valve was plated too, inside and out. This should make it more bullet proof. In an ideal world I would re-cast this out of brass.

Assembly complete:

 

[73Coupe]

I sent the lines back to Classic Tube, they had to make a few corrections. Just got those back and installed the fronts.

The combo valve is installed and plumbed now except for the front to rear line.

Front brakes complete. New NOS asbestos pads installed that I had sourced from @mobileparts a few years ago.