icanfixall
Official GMM hand model
Well I finally spent the few bucks to buy the special rear brake spring tool to remove the brakes from the backing plates. For those that have never seen or done this job its a horrible job without this tool. Snapon makes this tool but towcat tells us its a crappy tool and it breaks easily. He has something that looks like this he got off the Mac truck so I figured to try this. About the same price too. The silly design of the small coil springs that holds the shoes to the backing plate is nothing like what you find on many brake shoe applications. Those have the cups under and over the springs and you press the top spring retainer down on the pin that sticks thru the plate. Not so on our fords. We have a coil the grabs the bent pin and holds the shoe that way... Not fun. So I have this for the rest of my life.. I hope.. Tolls are good to have...
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