With the back part of the frame sanded, protected/painted it was time to move onto the rear brakes.
Most everything about the brakes was a slug fest!
First taking the tires off, the outers were not too bad, the inners required a sledge hammer with dozens of hits, finally those came off.
Pulling the calipers off and taking out the axles shaft, pretty straight forward....
Then came the hubs and rotors, the bolts were not too bad but I went back to the sledge hammer to get the rotors & hubs off.
This was the toughest part, it took hit after hit after hit and rotating the rotor and blah blah blah, but finally they came off.
I took the rotors off the hubs, cleaned up the hubs and pulled out the seal with a slide hammer.
I replaced the inner and outer bearings for good measure as well as the hub seals and axle shaft seals.
The parking brake pads were almost to metal as well as the caliper pads which were all replaced.
The parking brake lever (see pick below) was frozen and would not move so I replaced that as well. Heck I replaced a lot.. The calipers looked pretty good, almost like they had been replaced at some point.
I used the semigloss caliper high heat paint, all turned out pretty clean.... I'd say I sanded by hand for about 2-3 hours total.
It took a while to find the torque settings on the net and calling the Ford dealer, then it was time to put the PowerStop kit on.
The install was pretty straight forward.
Installing the hub seal did take a bit of finagling. I did not want to buy a 80 dollar seal installer (plus shipping) so I went to Lowe's. I bought a 5 inch hole saw ($35.00) and ground down the teeth. It fit perfect, I then hammered in the seal.
After the cleaning and install was done I was pretty happy with the results.
Now onto taking off the rear springs and bracketry and installing the Kelderman kit in the rear.....
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A Little Before And After Below:
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