I'm a little new to Jeeps although I have a TJ now and had a YJ 10-12 years
ago. What model and year is your Jeep?
On my YJ, the previous owner had run it through sea water and the brakes
rusted up so much that I ended up replacing every moving part in each
wheel.
It was awful.
My father-in-law was a truck mechanic for International Harvester and
taught
me a couple of things about doing brake jobs. One, never take the left
and right brakes apart at the same time. This is so that you can look at
the one to see how to put the other back together. Another thing is to
put
a little lube here and there. Yet another tidbit is to occasionally
clean
out the brakes. Off-road equipment can get a lot of dirt and crud
build-up. Before much was know about the damage asbestos could do to
lungs, the shop people would just use air and blow out the brake dust.
Father-in-law used to make some extra money by doing brake jobs for folks
on
Saturdays at home. He would take off the drum, put a large shallow
bucket
under the brake assembly and wash it all with a solution of warm water and
soap. Rinse with plain water. When reassembling, just a dab of special
grease where metal moved against metal. I haven't done a brake job for a
few years now, but my procedure was to get the drums/rotors turned by a
reliable shop and put on the best shoes/pads I could get. If I needed to
do a wheel cylinder, I would just buy a complete new cylinder. Even
with
buying a bunch of new stuff, it was still lots cheaper to do it myself
over
having a shop/dealer do it.
Hope this helps somewhat.
Ralph
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