Re: Broke breaks on my 67 American

[farna@xxxxxxx]

This reminds me -- some years used Bendix and Wagner interchangeably. Basically AMC used both suppliers. Generally one model used one manufacturer another model the other. But there were times when they were switched due to supply problems. AMC typically used more than one supplier when they could just in case there was a problem with getting enough parts from one or the other in a timely manner due to labor problems, fire (like when the GM Hydramatic plant -- the only auto trans maker at the time -- had a fire in the early 50s, shutting supplies of auto transmissions down to many makes for 10-12 months), supply problems of their own, etc. I have seen mid to late 60s Americans with Wagners, but more received Bendix. Same for the Classic and Rebel -- for a few years all received Wagner, and I don't think I've seen one of those with Bendix except where the owner changed them out due to parts availability problems. Since Bendix supplies more makers (like Ford at teh time) maybe!
  there was a supply problem at one time and/or another. 


On May 25, 2005 Gary L. Kirk wrote:

> Last night, I decided to dive into the brakes on my 67 American. I guess I
> should have taken knocking the weed wacker over (which broke it's spark
> plug) as a bad omen and called it quits but I've never let common sense
> stop me from working on something before so I dove right in.
> 
> When I pulled the front drums off (I haven't done the rear yet), I got a
> little bit of a surprise. What I expected to see was a Bendix setup with
> cable operated self adjusters but what was on it is what looks like a
> Wagner system with link operated self adjusters. In fact, the front brakes
> look exactly like the heavy duty six cylinder setup for a 67 Rebel.
<SNIP> 
> 
> I had this happen when looking for front shoes on my 65 American
> convertible. Seems every parts store wanted to sell me a pair of shoes that
> were not right!
> I finally took the shoes to an Advance and we matched them up using a
> picture book.
> If I remember right, they had flat tangs where they butted to the mounting
> stub and a hook punched out of the shoe backing plate that made these shoes
> peculiar.
> good luck, Gary Kirk
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