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| | | | Joined: Jan 2022 Posts: 118 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2022 Posts: 118 | I need to do some serious brain picking today. Working on my '50 3100, replacing the brake shoes on the front. It still has the original Huck brakes. In the process of putting the retainer pins in the bottom of the shoes, one of the smaller pins (I think it is 3/16") which is held in tension with a coil spring escaped from me. I was compressing it with channellock pliers and they slipped. I have been able to find the spring, but the pin must have launched into low-earth orbit. I have turned the shop upside down and the blasted pin is not to be found. I have the idea of using a 3/16" Grade 8 bolt and a nylon-insert nut to replace the pin if I can't find it. Since the shoe does not move at that attachment point, I don't see that there would be a problem, BUT before I do something hazardous, I thought I would run this idea up the flagpole and get some input from someone who may have run into this before. Any and all input appreciated | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,792 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,792 | Don't trust the nylock nut to stay put- - - - -use a drop of red Loctite along with it. If it ever needs to be removed again, a Propane torch will break the thread locker bond.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2022 Posts: 118 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2022 Posts: 118 | Roger that, on the Red Loctite. Better safe than sorry | | | | | Joined: Oct 2021 Posts: 6,791 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2021 Posts: 6,791 | As soon as you install it with Loctite the original pin will turn up.
1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy)
1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2022 Posts: 118 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2022 Posts: 118 | Never fails- buy/replace/fabricate another one and you have to move the "lost" one out of the way! | | | | | Joined: May 2015 Posts: 11,063 Housekeeping (Moderator) Making a Stovebolt Bed & Paint and Body Shop Forums | | Housekeeping (Moderator) Making a Stovebolt Bed & Paint and Body Shop Forums Joined: May 2015 Posts: 11,063 | In the process of putting the retainer pins in the bottom of the shoes, one of the smaller pins (I think it is 3/16") which is held in tension with a coil spring escaped from me. I was compressing it with channellock pliers and they slipped. I have been able to find the spring, but the pin must have launched into low-earth orbit. I hate it when that happens.  And agreed on as soon as you find a replacement, the original one will turn up. It never fails.
Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truckFollow this saga in Project JournalPhotos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together. | | |
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