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| | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 581 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 581 | Going to order some rivets to reline my brakes on my 1 ton. I was able to find some old Greyrock already predrilled. The box calls for no. 4-6 rivets. In the 1/2 ton trucks it looks like they used 4-4.5 rivets. Anyway should I get brass or steel? | | | | | Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 339 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 339 | If you are having a hard time getting rivets and have a small aircraft repair shop around, they do all there own brake work and i would think that they would have the rivets. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 575 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 575 | 1 ton trucks (AFAIK) don't use riveted brake pads - they're bonded.
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 581 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 581 | Bigtonka, I'll have to check for that by pulling the hub off. I hadn't done that yet. The box of Grey-Rock "balanced" linings is labeled with "1946 1-ton truck". But what you said may coincide with the fact there are no rivets mentioned in the parts book for my trucks. There are some for earlier pre-40's trucks. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 581 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 581 | Checked the rears and they are riveted. Brass or steel? | | | | | Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 575 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 575 | Sorry - didn't mean to misslead you - perhaps that changed in 47? My 49 are bonded.
Mark | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 | Both bonded and riveted have been available for years and I highly doubt there's any ADs around with the original brake shoes. We need the guy that installed them at the factory to solve this mystery. | | | | | 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 | ...perhaps they were riveted to begin with but the aftermarket replacment folks did it the cheap and fast wasy....bonding? | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,751 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,751 | The couple of thousand brake rivets I've installed were all brass, to the best of my recollection. We had a relining machine at the family shop back in the late 1950's. It had a built-in drilling fixture to remove the old rivets, a radius grinder to clean up the surface of the shoes prior to relining, and even a special drill bit to counterbore the lining material for the rivets. We bought bulk lining material in 100-foot rolls.
Jerry
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| | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 581 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 581 | Brass it is. I see where the aviation and old tractor industry repairs their own brakes/clutches. I got a hand held or bench vise tool they use that's supposed to grind off the rivet, punch it out, countersink the lining, and press a new rivet in. I did see some old hand lever bench top rivet tools on Ebay but the dies appear to be missing. We'll see what happens when I get it all. | | |
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