RE: Disc Brakes

["Armand Eshleman" <aje1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

AHA! More valuable information!!! The pictures really explain the assembly.
Tom, thanks for taking the time to respond and include the pics.
Looks like another trip to NAPA for wedges and springs.
Armand




Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 18:08:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Disc Brakes
Message-ID: <20050504180412.B1126@localhost>

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.