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| | | | Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 454 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 454 | I'm currently doing a frame-off resto and this weekend I got my wheels bare to the backing plates. I have my wheel cylinder rebuild kits and my brake spring kits ready to rebuild all of the brakes. After cleaning the backing plate, there appears to be just a little surface rust. I assume that the backing plate was not painted from the factory (someone correct me if I'm wrong) and that's why there is some rust.
I'd like to hear some opinions as to what I should do to the backing plates before rebuilding the brakes:
1) Do nothing, they lasted 50 years just fine.
2) Wire brush any loose rust and leave bare.
3) Wire brush any loose rust and paint with some high temp rattle can paint.
4) Other?
Thanks
Jeff Nelson
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | Don't know if they were painted from factory or not. (probably not) However I would clean them up real good and paint them. Powder coating would look good on them?! | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 | That is a perfect item for Zero Rust. It looks great and lasts forever. Very chipresistant as well.
54 3100 with 235
62 flatbed dump C60 with 261
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 8,597 Riding in the Passing Lane | | Riding in the Passing Lane Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 8,597 | I like Rustoleum rusty metal primer. It has a good thick coating & You can paint thecolor on it as soon as it flashes over, about 30 minutes & the whole thing is dry in an hour or 2. 
They say money can't buy happiness. It can buy old Chevy trucks though. Same thing. 1972 Chevy c10 Cheyenne SuperIn the Gallery Forum | | | | | Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 5,723 24601 | | 24601 Joined: Nov 1995 Posts: 5,723 | Jeff, I second Tony M's suggestion. I did my 4400 backing plates with zero rust when I cleaned them off three years ago. This weekend when I finally got around to putting the new brake parts back on, they still looked great!
Regards,
John
~ John A kid raised on Hotwheels, Matchbox and Tonka cannot be reasonably expected to own only one vehicle as an adult. 1949 Chevrolet 3804In the Legacy Gallery | In the Gallery Forum1973 IH 1310 Dump1963 Kaiser M38A12001 International/AmTran RE3000 "Skoolie"2014 Ford E-350 4x4 (Quigley) | | | | | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 124 Member | | Member Joined: May 2004 Posts: 124 | Nothing wrong with all those sugestions but I would just clean them good and forget them. Who ever looks at backing plates anyway?
I like old trucks
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 1,571 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 1,571 | I think I'd paint them. Not so much a matter of looks as a matter of protection against corrosion. | | |
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