OK A friend in NC is puttung his on the market. I thought you daughter had a truck

 

She does and has finally realized she can't afford the gas when she gets a job. The wife likes it and wants to keep it.

 

Did you tell her welcome to Life?

 

A zip tie saved me a $1000.00. I found the source of my low power. The throttle cable was in the wrong position not allowing full travel. Since it was doing before I changed the cable I thought it was Injector pump and injectors. I guess the old cable was stretched and the new one had two positions. I moved it and zip tied it in place great pickup now. I still have to test it under a heavy load.

 

I wish a zip tie could help me figure out my spongy brakes. I thought one of my rotors were warped but they look fine. None of the lines have signs of leaking.

 

Funny you mention brakes, I got my neighbors Envoy in the backyard for the same thing . We can not get pressure to the back brakespecially it an abs issue. Going to bypass the abs system.

Your problem is Air.

Did you replace the master cylinder ?
Do you still have drums on the back?
How are you trying to bleed them?

 

Yes it still has drum brakes in the back. I think I need to replace the brake hoses because parts are peeling off at the ends. Also, who ever came up with the wedge retaining clip for the calipers should be shot. Took me a hour to get one off. Also, have any of you folks ever had rotors with built in studs pretty neat. However Got to repack bearing when you replace rotors. :/

 

Sorry to hear about the brake issues.

Smoked it at work today. We pulled a transmission on our second truck. We had it out by lunch time which is a record. We have it stripped and everything put on the new one and ready to set in the morning. We are hours ahead on the work order. Have another truck coming in tomorrow with transmission problems. Bring it on!!!

 

The 3rd truck has not showed up yet which is fine with me. We ended up having to replace all the bearing in the pump drives in both trucks we have torn apart. That took all day yesterday so we were not ready for another truck.

It was nice to go out to my tractor and it fire right up. The wife wants to go to some chicken swap thing on Saturday so I'm trying to get ahead on weekend chores.

 

Alex
If you are replacinng hoses go ahead and do wheel cylinders on the rear.
This thing rocks.
https://www.harborfreight.com/brake-...der-92924.html

Make life a whole lot easier. No more 2 person pump and hold

When you start you bleed go RR,LR,RF, LF. 8f you did the master cylinder it has to be bench bled or you will never get the air out
I finished the brakes on my neighbor's Envoy. Useing my bleeder it still took a while.

Chief
Glad your happy with you tractor. I still waiting on the part from my dealer, neither one 9f 7s can figure out why it took corporate 6 weeks to get him the part. Once it get here I either have to d9 my first cylinder rebuild or take it some where. The onlyrics thing that looks hard is getting the snap rIngles out of the end.

Where is the chicken swap, my land neighbor that could not read a plat to find his property raises chickens

 

Hey Hugh,

I got a mityvac bleeder, I think I am going to replace the master and boosters because both are like 80 bucks total together after core return.

I need to figure out if I have one or two rear hoses. I have never messed with drum brakes before so this will be interesting. Looks like I will have a whole new brake system while I am at it. I guess I have to be able to stop all that torque and hp.

Funny thing you guys talking about working on land. I have little over a .25 of acre and I am clearing out some smaller trees and over grown stuff. Man, I couldn't image having 10 or 20 acres.

 

We just use bigger tools. You use a garden rake, mine is an attachment on the bucket of my tractor. My bush hog is 5 ft wide. We still have to use chain saws to drop a tree. If it is small enough I can push it over with the tractor or try pulling it with a chain

 

[QUOTE=axelgawn;17247109]Hey Hugh,

I got a mityvac bleeder, I think I am going to replace the master and boosters because both are like 80 bucks total together after core return.

I need to figure out if I have one or two rear hoses. I have never messed with drum brakes before so this will be interesting. Looks like I will have a whole new brake system while I am at it. I guess I have to be able to stop all that torque and hp.

The rear brake line leaves the MC go a proportioning valve (I think it is on the cross member) from there it goes along the frame rail to the T on the axle that splits to each wheel cylinder rubber hose should be around the T everything else is steel.

You may have to adjust the rear brakes in to get the drums off. If they are adusted right an no Ridge the will slide off. If you have to beat on the do it around the edge of the drum.

Only do onee side at a time, that way you have a new example of how the go back together. There are 2 springs that hold the shoes on 1 per shoe those are push to compress and turn. There is a top spring and bottom spring those are stretch type. The wheel cylinder at the top, that is what pushes the brakes out . These are high failure items Do Not get rebuild kits, justt get new ones if they are leaking as with any brake work also do the whole axle.
You will have a short cable that goes down to the adjuster. Pay attention to how the adjuster is placed. You also have the emergency brake cable connected to the brakes

Here the tools you need for the rears

https://www.harborfreight.com/3-piec...kit-97804.html



If you can get the rears to bleed you will need to reset the proportioning valove

https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gal...id=20541&.jpg=


Go to post #13 of this thread, everything above that is 8diots talking about bleeding brakes not resetting the valve

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/7...ing-valve.html

 

There are so many times I wish I had .25 acres. It is never ending of stuff to do. Saw 2 dead trees yesterday close to the power line that I will need to take care of soon.

 

I got 3 /8 here at the house that I still have to keep up. I talked to my tractor dealer today the part finally came , he was shipping to me today so it maybe here Saturday or Monday at the latest