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| Re: [GMCnet] Impromptu Work Rally [message #145303 is a reply to message #145299] |
Sun, 02 October 2011 20:42   |
Ken Henderson
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Location: Americus, GA
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That's great, Randy! GMCing at its finest.
I guess we were having a similar rally here: After I got home from Goshen,
Stick and I tried to bleed his brakes, only to find the reason they needed
it was a leaking RR wheel cylinder. But that was only the beginning: the
hold-down spring was rattling around inside the drum, along with the star
wheel and the rest of the adjusting mechanism. And that mechanism had
jammed the primary shoe, causing it to wear the lining to the rivets.
Our "work rally" lasted 3 days while we waited for parts. Fortunately, he
lives only about 4 miles away so I could just haul him home. :-) Amazingly
the drum was not scored, so we only had to replace the two rear wheel
cylinders (the disc brakes for the middle wheels were OK), the brake shoes,
the damaged adjusting mechanism, and all the springs.
With the replacements completed, the brakes yielded up a LOT of air, using
Jim Hupy's beautiful MC cover and my already modified lawn sprayer fo
pressure bleed them.
Stick's now ready for the trip to the GMCDL & GMCSS joint rally at Lake
Park, GA next week.
Ken H.
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Randy Van Winkle <rvanwin@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Several of us at the Goshen Rally decided to get together in Battlefield,
> MO for an impromptu work rally. Several of the GMC owners in SW Missouri
> attended and we all had a great time. Tom Dugan was the official scribe and
> photographer. I have posted his photo essay of our day here:
> <https://sites.google.com/site/vanwinklemusings/vanwinkle-work-rally>
> or <http://goo.gl/0UPzy>
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| Re: [GMCnet] Impromptu Work Rally [message #145307 is a reply to message #145303] |
Sun, 02 October 2011 20:58 |
rvanwin
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| Ken Henderson wrote on Sun, 02 October 2011 20:42 |
Our "work rally" lasted 3 days while we waited for parts. Fortunately, he
lives only about 4 miles away so I could just haul him home.  Amazingly
the drum was not scored, so we only had to replace the two rear wheel
cylinders (the disc brakes for the middle wheels were OK), the brake shoes,
the damaged adjusting mechanism, and all the springs.
With the replacements completed, the brakes yielded up a LOT of air, using
Jim Hupy's beautiful MC cover and my already modified lawn sprayer fo
pressure bleed them.
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Ken,
We actually spent quite a few more days putting on the disk brakes for George's coach. The "rally" was a day out of the disk job to put the macerator on Max's coach. We had trouble bleeding also. Unfortunately, neither of us had the foresight to get Jim's MC cover so we quickly fabricated our own. Worked great except we needed a little better gasket than the quick cutout from an old inner tube . But, with the power bleeder we did get a few more air bubbles out of the system and better performance. George is currently half way home and he reports that the brakes are performing well.
Randy & Margie
'77 Eleganza II '403'
Battlefield, MO
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