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| | | | Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 425 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 425 | I know this is probably a common question but I can't find it with the search feature.. Is there a process of getting all 4 drums adjusted the same, or is it trial and error? I understand the process of it- using the adjusting tool, etc, just need help with the technique. Thanks. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | here is one link, they are several , just type in brakes.. this one will probably work, scroll on down to what wrench says here I think a lot of it is by feel rather then X amount of notches, I adjusted mine on my 70 International a few weeks ago, I dont think I counted the exact turn, just how the drag felt... turned out ok..
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Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 425 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 425 | Thanks joker. When I first adjusted everything, I thought everything was too tight... I smelled either brakes or clutch while driving, so I backed them off... I'll have to do re-adjust them, because now they pull to one side and the brake pedal kinda pulses. I'll get it eventually, just wonderin if there was a trick to save me time.  | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 9,115 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 9,115 | The pulsation will be from a warped drum. Unless a brake is dragging, adjustments will not make it pull. If one is dragging and gets hot, it will not work the same as the other side and this could cause as pull. | | | | | 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 | Oldcartrucknut:
This may NOT apply but on some early model trucks the drum had a small slit in it to stick a flat guage in it to set the shoes.
Now, I'm with the other guys. I usually just lock the wheel down and then back off until I "like" what I feel and then do the others hoping to get the same "feel". Most of the time it works!
EDIT: OOPS, sorry. I didn't realize your IHC was a bigger truck than the 1/2ton. But the "feel" adjustment works on bigger to.
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,254 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,254 | All I have is 1/2 tons. When I bleed my lines I use a quart Mason jar and a new clear tube. I have found that everyone leaves the planet when I need help so I do everything alone.
I put the some brake fluid in the jar and run the tube from the bleeding screw to the bottom of the jar. I loosen the screw on the brake cyliner. I go into the truck and pump the brake watching the master cylinder to make sure it has enough brake fluid.
I start from the farthest cylinder and work in.
This works for me. I have found that these brakes do not stop as well as modern brakes. I would like to put disc's on my front end. Some day I will get there.
I hope this helped. Best of luck.
Dennis
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