Hi all, hope everyone had a Great 4th of July
Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. I did get the single-piece rod from Classic Parts to work, but it wasn't the correct part for the 1950 3100. In short, the clevis was both too wide and too thick. On (at least) my 1950 there is an oval shaped hole in the firewall and then a 2nd one in the framing that the rod must poke through, the part they sent would not go through. I had to hammer the ends closer together and grind the width of the clevis to about 1/2 its original width before it would slide through those holes. A proper rod I think would have easily slid in from the front towards the back, but the clevis arms were so long they could not get past the oval to fit into the pivot arm blade.... so I had to snake it from the rear side, which was a bit of a pain.
Anyway, I did get it all hooked up and I've readjusted the connecting clevis joints going to each wheel. The rear pivot bar is hard to twist (have to use a large screw-driver), but the pedal seems to do it fine without complaining so I've WD40'd it, and applied think grease on the inside and outside parts of the rear pivot bar joints.
One (hopefully final) question though
I'm a bit confused by the spring. According to the manual page provided (by Dan I think), the spring attaches to the rod clip and goes backwards towards the rear wheels. The spring is very strong, and with it pulling rear-ward that will be placing force towards locking the rear brakes... which seems wrong. There seems to be no parking brake pedal "return" (or parking brake off) spring, so it seems wrong that the only spring is towards locking the wheels. Am I missing something here ?
Thanks again.... I'm going to replace the rear shoes and check the wheel cylinders, as I have no idea when/if that's been done in the last 50 years. So hopefully all brakes and parking brake will be working at 100% when I finally get through.
Joe
