RE: Disc Brakes

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 4 May 2005, Armand Eshleman wrote:

> Over a year ago I disassembled all the components, my son abrasive blasted
> ...... I had no idea,
> what went where, when I opened the boxes this spring. Let's face it the
> Bendix system isn't
> as easy as the GM style where you just pull the two bolts and the caliper
> falls off. The crazy


AHa! A local friend recently had the same problem; I took these
photos of my hornet installation for him. Hope they help. The
first one's not so useful; the others have red arrows pointing at
the wedge and spring.

http://wps.com/temp/b1.jpg
http://wps.com/temp/b2.jpg
http://wps.com/temp/b3.jpg
http://wps.com/temp/b4.jpg
http://wps.com/temp/b5.jpg

They're actually quite simple; the caliper sits (via gravity) on
the bracket, then you tap in the wedge thingie at the top, and the
setscrew keeps it from sliding out. There's a leaf spring (flat
bar, arced) that fits between the wedge and the bracket, that
keeps it from rattling around. It goes in easy (right) or hard
(wrong) :-)

I bought new wedges from NAPA. Came with the arc springs.