Sometimes it’s radiator week at the shop..
And sometimes it’s brake week. It seems like it’s been brake week; I just finished the big brakes on the Mustang and the kit for a 1963 Biscayne showed up. That’s just the automotive tides coming in and going out. It feels like you replace one radiator, and three more cars get towed in for radiator work. One car comes in with bad brakes and the phone rings for the rest of the week for squeaking pads.
This Biscayne is ultra cool because it’s the owner’s very first car. I’m not sure if he’s the first owner or not, but it’s neat to see someone hold on to their original carriage. As often happens with old cars, they get set to the side when it’s time to upgrade. The Biscayne was the lowest trimmed model available for a full size Chevrolet, so when it was time to get a family mobile, the owner purchased a 2001 Impala. Power windows, power door locks, fuel injection, disc brakes. Since then, he’s purchased a second new Impala, but the Biscayne sat faithfully in the driveway. Now his son drives the 2001 Impala and he drives the 2015 car to work. His son, Ryan, took an interest in getting the oldest Chevy in the driveway roadworthy again. That’s the story up to where we come in.
I towed this car in straight out of the driveway. Three flat tires, an engine that wouldn’t run, and rot all over.
The first step in making this beige colored tank roll down the road is to get some wheels and tires on it. We talked for a while, and we decided to modernize a little bit. Power brakes and disc brakes will take the place of the original drum brakes and manual, single reservoir master cylinder–a major upgrade in safety, stopping power and driveability. I pried the rusted 14 inch wheels off the groaning drums and put some roller tires on them. I had to actually drag the car out of its parking spot into the shop, as a drum had locked up.
Ryan and I pulled the front drums, backing plates, wheel cylinders, brake lines, shoes, wheel bearings and hubs off the front spindles. I marched all the old parts straight to the scrap pile, and eventually they will be recycled into something new. I lined up all the new parts: hubs, brackets, calipers, bearings and discs.
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Then the wheel bearings get packed full of grease and the wheel seals mounted to the rear.
Once the new hub is slipped into place on the spindle, I set the bearing preload and installed the drilled and slotted rotors.
The calipers descend upon the discs, and the brake lines get run up to the original location. These new brakes wont work with 14″ drum brake wheels, so the customer brought over some brand new wheels and tires. Ryan and I mounted the tires to the new wheels and set them in their new home.
Now we can take apart the old rear drums and reassemble with new parts.