Brake system overhaul - '71

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

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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.

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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.


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New Timken bearings....

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Rotor shields painted....

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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".

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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:

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And it's working!

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

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EDIT: here are the final painted brackets.

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

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The caliper pin locating brackets were finished in black chromate.

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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.

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Assembly complete:

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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.

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

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