MIDNIGHT RIDER
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In my shiny new brake hardware/spring kit, there are two little 3/4" long 1/2" wide maybe 3/32" thick little "Cs" or "clips" or somesuch with a hair over 1/4" open sides; what are these and where do they go ??
I see nothing that resembles them, nor have I ever seen anything like them on any of the Dana brakes I have had experience with, yet just about every spring kit has them.
On a different subject, still the same rear brakes, I ordered new Wagner "Thermoquiet" (or whatever) 12X3-inch shoes from Rock Auto.
These shoes came with the little brake-adjuster pivot-pins already driven in.
I installed the little cable-guide thingie and the adjuster and spring and headed out to the truck to mount my shiny new shoes.
As I was looking at my greasy old shoes laying there, making sure I had used all the correct holes, it became evident that on the old shoes the extra layer of metal was on the outside, looking at me, when the shoes were mounted.
My new shoes had the adjuster pivot-pins driven in such that their orientation was backwards to the old shoes --- hmmmm --- scratching head.
Perplexing, to say the least; who is to say that the old shoes couldn't have been installed backwards ??
I dug out two more sets of old used shoes and they all had the hardware installed opposite to the new shoes; then again, who is to say that they were also correct, as I always just put them like I found them.
I looked at about a dozen truck sites, searching for a clear picture of properly installed shoes; I thought I would find hundreds of pictures; I only found one very rusty old Dana-60 on Ramchargercentral and it showed the shoes mounted with the extra layer of metal on the visible side.
So, I removed all my new hardware from the new shoes, drove out the factory-driven-in pins, flipped the shoes over, and started over.
So, just to be certain, the extra layer of metal should be on the "show" side of the shoes, facing me, where I can see them, when the shoes are properly mounted on the backing-plates, right ???
A less observant person could screw up.
I see nothing that resembles them, nor have I ever seen anything like them on any of the Dana brakes I have had experience with, yet just about every spring kit has them.
On a different subject, still the same rear brakes, I ordered new Wagner "Thermoquiet" (or whatever) 12X3-inch shoes from Rock Auto.
These shoes came with the little brake-adjuster pivot-pins already driven in.
I installed the little cable-guide thingie and the adjuster and spring and headed out to the truck to mount my shiny new shoes.
As I was looking at my greasy old shoes laying there, making sure I had used all the correct holes, it became evident that on the old shoes the extra layer of metal was on the outside, looking at me, when the shoes were mounted.
My new shoes had the adjuster pivot-pins driven in such that their orientation was backwards to the old shoes --- hmmmm --- scratching head.
Perplexing, to say the least; who is to say that the old shoes couldn't have been installed backwards ??
I dug out two more sets of old used shoes and they all had the hardware installed opposite to the new shoes; then again, who is to say that they were also correct, as I always just put them like I found them.
I looked at about a dozen truck sites, searching for a clear picture of properly installed shoes; I thought I would find hundreds of pictures; I only found one very rusty old Dana-60 on Ramchargercentral and it showed the shoes mounted with the extra layer of metal on the visible side.
So, I removed all my new hardware from the new shoes, drove out the factory-driven-in pins, flipped the shoes over, and started over.
So, just to be certain, the extra layer of metal should be on the "show" side of the shoes, facing me, where I can see them, when the shoes are properly mounted on the backing-plates, right ???
A less observant person could screw up.