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Cleaning/de-oiling brake shoes

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8n in MN

01-07-2002 11:15:33




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Did I once read that the brake shoes can be cleaned and freed of oily residue due to leaky seals? I know brake cleaner helps, but someone mentioned burning the oil from the shoes. Do you satuate the shoes with brake cleaner and then hit them with the blow torch or what?




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ARB

01-07-2002 17:36:33




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 Re: Cleaning/de-oiling brake shoes in reply to 8n in MN, 01-07-2002 11:15:33  
A method that worked decent for me was to bury them in a bag of Speedi dri for a couple of weeks. I have a 9n and at $75 a set, I gave it a whirl. SO far so good.

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Richard(WY)

01-07-2002 15:30:29




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 Re: Cleaning/de-oiling brake shoes in reply to 8n in MN, 01-07-2002 11:15:33  
check the archives for my post about how I degrease mine over at the mother in law's house. Just set them on a rack in a cookie sheet at 350 degrees for about an hour or so. Cleans them up nice. No one has noticed the smell in the oven yet.



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TimK........Don't mess with old shoes

01-07-2002 14:06:04




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 Re: Cleaning/de-oiling brake shoes in reply to 8n in MN, 01-07-2002 11:15:33  
No one mentions this point ever on this Board in your type of question, but unless you are confident that the brake shoes are of fairly recent vintage, let's say last 10 years, don't mess with 'em, espesially heating them. Early brake shoes were made with asbestos, bad stuff health wise, and sanding, heating, etc. drives that bad stuff into the atmospere and ...well, need I say more. My $.02



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Don (NC)

01-07-2002 19:06:47




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 Re: Re: Cleaning/de-oiling brake shoes in reply to TimK........Don't mess with old shoes, 01-07-2002 14:06:04  
Yep, I agree. I knew mine were only a couple of yrs old so no problem. If they were 10 yrs old, probably would have been too worn out to bother with.



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Don (NC)

01-07-2002 13:30:18




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 Re: Cleaning/de-oiling brake shoes in reply to 8n in MN, 01-07-2002 11:15:33  
I cleaned my break shoes up last spring. I took them off and washed them down with some degreaser, dried them off, took a propane torch and heated them up until all the oil had bubbled out and evaporated. Then I washed them with brake cleaner and reinstalled them. Seem to be good as new. (I didn't have a wear problem, just needed cleaning.) The cleaning process took 30 minutes at most. For me it was worth the trouble...saved the cost of new shoes and, most importantly, the time it would have taken me to drive 30 miles and back or wait for delivery from a vendor.

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Dell (WA)

01-07-2002 12:06:02




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 Re: Cleaning/de-oiling brake shoes in reply to 8n in MN, 01-07-2002 11:15:33  
de-oiling 8N brakeshoes, at best, is false economy. Ya needs all the cleanshoe stoppin' power ya can getts. But if'n ya gotts more time than sense, then you "sweat" the oil outta the shoe, wipe it and heat it up again until no more oil film onnna the shoe surface. $40 for relined shoes, ain't worth my time..... ...Dell



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8n in MN says thanks to Dell

01-07-2002 12:14:13




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 Re: Re: Cleaning/de-oiling brake shoes in reply to Dell (WA), 01-07-2002 12:06:02  
Those were my thoughts, too, but there are a lot more smarter people than I out there in N country.



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Quickdraw

01-07-2002 12:02:47




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 Re: Cleaning/de-oiling brake shoes in reply to 8n in MN, 01-07-2002 11:15:33  
I was having problems stopping my 9N, pulled the drums and found that some previous owner had pumped the brake drums full of grease, there is a zerk at the bottom of the backer plate for some unknown reason and whoever greased it did a real good job. Scraped the majority of the grease out, then dunked the shoes and backer plates into a vat of varsol and brushed off what grease I could, then I got out the brake parts cleaner and gave them a few good blasts while wiping them down with a cloth. They looked pretty good when all the solvent dried out of them. Not sure if you have to worry or not but these are rivitted shoes, not bonded. Have fun.

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