Re: [oletrucks] RE:Any Suggestions for Cleaning Brakes?

["G. Simmons" <gls@4link.net>]

Gary Radicic wrote:


>I've just began working the brakes on my 50 3/4 ton.  .. Any suggestions on
proven "best" ways of
>cleaning?

Gary, I usually take all the movable parts and the wheel cyls off, then wire
brush the backing plates and when they're mostly clean, I paint them with
corroless type rust converter, which brake fluid doesn't eat, as it does to
paint.  Other parts get cleaned in the wire wheel on my grinder.

Regards,

Grant S.
54 3100 (mostly all there)
54 3100 (mostly not there)
55 1st 3100 (mostly rust)
Los Angeles, CA


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