Re: 75 Gremlin Brake Job

["amc74hornet" <AMC74HORNET@xxxx>]

--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "David G." <servermaster13@xxxx> wrote:
> Well, this past weekend my Dad and I bent up and
> installed some new rear brake lines for his 75 X.
> About a month or two ago he got in the car to go to
> the Deli and when he stepped on the brake and put it
> in gear the pedal went to the floor.. he quickly got
> it back in park, shut it down, and checked for fluid.
> Wasn't hard to spot the huge puddle under the left
> rear of the car. Turns out that day he was planning to
> replce the heater core in his car as well. His leaks
> and when we take it out on a cold night, the windows
> instantly fog up and we need to open windows and wipe
> as fast as possible with napkins, as well as turn the
> heat off, so it gets a little cool in the car. But he
> got the tubes and fittings he needed to do the brakes,
> and after a few busy weekends we had time to bend them
> to shape. I must say he did an impressive job. If I
> had just walked in and saw them done, I probably
> wouldn't have thought much of it, but in this case I
> had not only watched, I got to help. It truly is an
> art. Sunday we got to put them in. I didn't get up
> until about 12, so already it was somewhat of a late
> start, as it gets cold and dark here fast. A neighbor
> from up the street came down to talk to us about our
> house and the renovations we had done to it, so that
> sort of held us up. We got out and started setting up
> shop(in the street, the donohue is on the trailer in
> the driveway and we don't have much better of a work
> area available, like a garage, as the trailer blocks
> the entrance, and there is a 70 jav sst inside anyway)
> and got to work. It took us about 4 hours, maybe 4 and
> a half with the test drive. It was dark when we
> finished, as we were going to just leave it and finish
> it another weekend as it was getting too cold and
> dangerous to really lie around holding cold wrenches
> on the cold ground on a dark busy street. We however
> pushed on, we only needed to bleed and test at that
> point. We finally finished, I cleaned up and he
> grabbed the keys. We got to the end of the street and
> by the time we turned the corner the windsheild was
> instantly fogged up due to that pesky heater core. We
> proceded to follow the fogwindow ritual of ours and
> then got off to a nice start to the beach down the
> road. We also came to a nice stop! That's good! You
> can however feel the rust on the rotors when you stop,
> as I know its not the brakes that make the car pull.
> We adjusted them the best we could and it could only
> really be the rotors at this point, not too worried
> about it though. Next spring will bring around the
> heater core project and a tune up. Hopefully it WON'T
> bring bondoing projects, as the car is starting to
> rust on the bottoms of the doors and around some of
> the wheel wells(around the top by the fenders) and the
> thing is in need of another paint job. Well, thats my
> weekend work story. -Dave
> 
> =====
> D.G. 713
> 
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Sounds like you and your father had a busy weekend. Bending brake lines and flareing them is an art all in itself even when you have the proper tools. I just plumbed in an adjustable disc brake proportioning valve into the brake system of my original Hornet in preperation of the disc brake conversion this spring. The heater core job is not a hard one. I just did one in the new Hornet last month. Also if you need a new vacume controled heater valve they are available at your local auto parts store, I needed one of those too.
"Doc"