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Well... Went and picked up my lathe today. Got about a third of the way home and was having issues.long story short the shim on the back of one of the brake pads had slid down and was grinding on the rotor. I have no idea how it happened, it must have just gotten hot enough with the trailer behind it to soften the glue and pulled just right against the caliper. Very odd and quite a racket it made! I thought a caliper locked up.

Now I get to go get the trailer from a friends house tomorrow and get it home and unloaded before it rains on Friday.
Sounds like Christmas came early. I love the tools, you can never have enough of them!
 

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Got about a third of the way home and was having issues.long story short the shim on the back of one of the brake pads had slid down and was grinding on the rotor. I have no idea how it happened, it must have just gotten hot enough with the trailer behind it to soften the glue and pulled just right against the caliper. Very odd and quite a racket it made! I thought a caliper locked up.
It happens. Back in about 1994, I was driving around in town. A car pulled out in front of me, not close, just in front, and when I hit the brake pedal to slow down, I felt a "thump" through the brake pedal. I let off the brakes and started looking in my mirrors for what I had run over. In the windshield mirror, I saw something dark colored laying in the street. As I got up to the next red light, I heard grinding from the brakes and I knew that had been part of a brake pad. There was nothing that I could do except drive the truck. I picked up a new set of pads as soon as I could and put them on. When I was changing them out, one of the pads had no lining left on it.
 

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It happens. Back in about 1994, I was driving around in town. A car pulled out in front of me, not close, just in front, and when I hit the brake pedal to slow down, I felt a "thump" through the brake pedal. I let off the brakes and started looking in my mirrors for what I had run over. In the windshield mirror, I saw something dark colored laying in the street. As I got up to the next red light, I heard grinding from the brakes and I knew that had been part of a brake pad. There was nothing that I could do except drive the truck. I picked up a new set of pads as soon as I could and put them on. When I was changing them out, one of the pads had no lining left on it.

Yeah Rich had that happen to him on this truck before I bought it. I replaced EVERYTHING except the calipers and hoses last fall so I was afraid it was a stuck caliper.

I can see how a pad could come off, but... The shims shouldn't be able to move, the ears around the pads and there shouldn't be rotational play between the pads and the calipers.

Oh well, it's done.
 

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Yeah Rich had that happen to him on this truck before I bought it. I replaced EVERYTHING except the calipers and hoses last fall so I was afraid it was a stuck caliper.

I can see how a pad could come off, but... The shims shouldn't be able to move, the ears around the pads and there shouldn't be rotational play between the pads and the calipers.

Oh well, it's done.
Same subject, different situation. Last night I was unloading a three wheeler to go for a ride after work. I rode it down my loading ramps and right at the bottom, it suddenly stood clear up on the back end. I knew that I had just barely touched the brakes at that point. I figured out that it wouldn't move at all. I had to pick up the back end to frag it the last foot off of the ramps. I fiddled with it and backed the rear brakes almost all the way back off (cable operated drum brakes). I can now barely roll it. Since I had something similar happen before, I know what happened. One of the old brake shoes had the lining come off. With the speed it was rolling, that loose lining got wedged in between the other shoe and the brake drum. The only good thing is that I have everything to put new front and rear brakes on it. Maybe there is one other good thing. It happened at the bottom of the ramps. If it would have happened in the middle, I probably would have flipped clear over backward and smashed my head on the driveway.
 

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Got my parts washer, lathe, and mill home safely. I have to get stuff in the shop then I'll share a few pictures in the "anything and everything" thread in the lounge.

Cool! Give us some pics when you get a chance. Bet your'n is bigger'n mine: I got a little Myford ML3 recently.

Not sure, it's 10.5" swing with a 24" bed. Definitely smaller than I would like, but for various reasons I wanted it, even though the condition isn't stellar.

Sounds like Christmas came early. I love the tools, you can never have enough of them!

Under normal circumstances I would agree but I'm not exactly thrilled with the reason I bought them. I'll explain later when I make my post with pictures.

One of the old brake shoes had the lining come off. With the speed it was rolling, that loose lining got wedged in between the other shoe and the brake drum


Had that ALMOST happen on an old truck I dragged home. It had been sitting and if the lines hadn't been rotted and we'd tried the brakes it would have. Peeled right off by hand easy.
 

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I had a spring fall off the drums on my k1500 once and lock up the drums than somehow it broke free and wedged itself between the shoe and drum so than somehow I had absolutely no brakes all the way around was a good time. Thankful for manual trans because I live on a big hill.
 

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Mine has a whopping 3-1/2" swing, and that same 24" bed. It'll do to learn on, until I stumble across something a little bigger.

3-1/2 swing or 3-1/2 between the center and the ways? I was TOLD that swing is total diameter, which would be double the distance from the center to the ways. I could have heard wrong though. If I'm wrong I only have a 5.25" swing.
 

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I had a spring fall off the drums on my k1500 once and lock up the drums than somehow it broke free and wedged itself between the shoe and drum so than somehow I had absolutely no brakes all the way around was a good time. Thankful for manual trans because I live on a big hill.

Heh, mine had been sitting in the yard until the town fussed. Went to put it in the garage and one side was rusted right solid, the other was soaked in oil! Fun times trying to get that moving again hahaha.

It's another project for the future.
 

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