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<\/a><\/p>\nI like it and the slightly annoying thing is that unlike the paint I mixed for the panel repairs, the screw heads have stayed nice and shiny! Why couldn’t the panel paint have done so as well \ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n
The next job on the list was to remove the main undercarriage wheels, check the brakes for serviceability and regrease the wheel bearings. I started with the port side and here is a pic of the stub axle with the wheel and brake drum removed.<\/p>\n
I was glad to see that there is still plenty of meat on the brake shoes but when I checked the mechanism I found that it was seized solid. As you can see in the next pic, the mechanism is very simple. The cable operates a lever which causes the small plate against which the bottoms of both shoes rest, to rotate forcing the bottoms of the shoes apart. The tops rest against a round pivot so by forcing the shoes apart they are pushed into contact with the brake drum. Simples \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Trouble was the spindle connecting the operating lever and the rotating plate was seized where it passes through the back plate. Nothing for it – spray on WD40 and work the spindle without causing any damage until it was free. Luckily I was successful and I’m glad to say that I got the brake working again. I also checked the other one, although I haven’t stripped it yet, and I’m pleased to say that that one is free and working properly.<\/p>\n While the wheel was off I took the opportunity to re-pack the bearings with fresh grease. Lucky I did as they obviously hadn’t seen any for years! I was then able to reassemble the hub with all of the work done. It should be a doddle doing the other side (famous last words) and with all of the ‘under-panel’ work then done I’ll be able to look forward to refitting the instrument panel, gauges and wiring. That really will be progress and I’m looking forward to it immensely \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brake off, actually, but I’ll come back to that in a moment. I had to make a late start today so I had a fair bit to do in quite a short time. The first thing I wanted to do was finish off the panel. All I had to do was fit the remaining gauges … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n