BONES - Wrenching weekend April 9th

[fatboy]

That is awesome you guys helped him out like that! Very cool.


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Good group of guys up here in New England. This is why I like the Bronco Brotherhood so much. Bunch of parts changed hands as well.

 

[migs]

Had a great time with everyone... and thanks for the grub Pete, was delicious!
when you cooking again?;D;D

 

[fatboy]

Had a great time with everyone... and thanks for the grub Pete, was delicious!
when you cooking again?;D;D

Whenever we install the rock skies... ;D

By the way, I did email the bean recipe to slednut and I can send it your way too if you want.

 

[fatboy]

Well I blew that one! The calipers showed up yesterday and one needed to be painted out which I did last night. It has been raining the last two days but the sun is out now so I figure get the front calipers on. No pads, totally spaced it. Not in stock anywhere so I am waiting for Rock Auto to ship them out to me.

 

[tasker]

you need a new parts guy!! trust me...you get used to waiting!

 

[Slednut10]

Good group of guys up here in New England. This is why I like the Bronco Brotherhood so much. Bunch of parts changed hands as well.

I agree wholeheartedly. Actually been the best part of owning my EB.
The hydraulic flaring tool referred to earlier is a Mastercool 71745 universal flaring kit. Made quick work of flaring the brake lines. Hankjr was like a kid at Christmas with a new toy while cranking out the new lines for the yellow truck.

 

[fatboy]

According to FedEx web site, the pads showed up at my house. Hopefully tonight I can get the front Calipers installed and bring the fluid throughout the lines. May not get to bleed them tonight since my boy works late but I should be able to get the system full on my own. Transmission looks to be empty and the coolant is way down as well so I will top off those systems and find out where the leaks are. Fingers crossed nothing major to stop it's maiden voyage to May It Forward!

 

[tasker]

UM....i would maiden voyage long before that....but that's just me

 

[fatboy]

UM....i would maiden voyage long before that....but that's just me

Where is the fun and adventure in that? ;D

I intend to drive it well before then, but I look at that as more like Sea trials and not the maiden voyage... %)

 

[fatboy]

I was able to get the calipers and pads on the front last night. They were tight! I had to use my dead blow hammer to tap them in place. I cannot turn the hubs by hand but when I put the wheels on I could turn them by hand (that whole physics mass/velocity/momentum thing). I am wondering if I should clearance the pads a bit or let the rotors do that for me. I do not want to create so much heat that I warp the rotors that are on there but I also cannot come up with a real good option for clearancing the pads and not wrecking the surface or pulling it out of parallel. Open to ideas.

 

[Slednut10]

Wait and see how they react once you have filled and bled the system.

 

[tasker]

AGREE with Art...plus gives you an excuse to drive it!!

 

[fatboy]

AGREE with Art...plus gives you an excuse to drive it!!

First I need to get the floors done so I can bolt a seat back into it...

 

[tasker]

mere semantics!

 

[Slednut10]

First I need to get the floors done so I can bolt a seat back into it...

mere semantics!

I know I saw a milk crate in that garage somewhere...........

 

[fatboy]

I know I saw a milk crate in that garage somewhere...........

That is true and I have used one more than once as a seat! ;D

 

[dave67fd]

Pete,
I know I had to hammer off the front calipers so if the new ones are tight probably ok in that respect. As Art said after proper bleed and a few operations of the pedal might make them ok.

 

[fatboy]

Guess I will see how they work as is and go from there, Wanted to say GREAT JOB to the boys who made the lines. Only one leaker but I think I have it fixed now. Still need to bleed them but I have fluid to each bleeder screw. When the boy gets home he will learn how to bleed brakes. ;D

 

[fatboy]

Could not get the leaker to stop. I ran out of time to pull the line but I will do that Monday as I have no time tomorrow to play. I will probably have to make another line but will have to wait until I get it off.

So I spent some time playing with a dash. The current dash in the truck is really rough, although it will not stop me from getting it on the road, but the sun was down so I moved into the garage. This dash came out of a 76 truck and is in tough shape. I stripped out all the dash parts including the 8 track tape player/ CB radio and found the rather hacked up hole behind the face plate. Still need to weld but the patch is trimmed in.

 

[hankjr]

Which line produced the leaker Pete?

There was one input adapter to the h block that I did not remove. It wasn't clear why it was there and I hated to mess with it.

Hank