2002 TJ. I pretty much agree with all you say here, and thanks. The
innards were clean and dry, just had brake dust that I blew out a bit. If
I
had redone the brakes this time I would have followed the advice to only
do
one side at a time so I can look at the other side for reference. I still
have plenty of pad left so I put this off to another time in the future
now,
and it passed inspection today after I tightened up the star wheel. 90K
miles and still pads left.
Tomes
"Pumper Hinkle" <ralphcompton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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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