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Yesterday I put the front brakes back together (based on a shop manual diagram) in my TR10 wagon. I was proud of myself because all the brake parts were in baggies in the back of the car when I bought it.

I found that front wheel cylinders out of a mk1 Herald (drum brakes) were the same as the ones I pulled out. I tried cleaning up the old wheel cylinders, but they were seized up from sitting for 30 odd years. So rather than risking life and limb on old brake parts I purchased new wheel cylinders, flexible hoses, and had the shoes and drums worked on at the local friction shop.
 
I'm proud to know someone who has a TR10 wagon.

And knows how to fix it's brakes.
 
Biggest reward when you work on old iron is to have something go back together the way it came apart and have it work right the first time.

CONGRATULATIONS! Tinkerman
 
Tinkerman said:
Biggest reward when you work on old iron is to have something go back together the way it came apart and have it work right the first time.
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or even the second, third, or fourth attempt.
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I'm just glad when there aren't any "extra" parts left. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
I spent three days trying to figure out why I couldn't get the rear brakes together properly. I could get everything on the backing plate, then couldn't get the drum over the shoes.

My brother gave me a copy of a 1960 Herald Shop manual for my birthday that had better drawings than my standard 8/10 manual; I discovered that I was installing the wheel cylinder (on both wheels) backwards.

Shows what happens when you try to assemble something that you didn't take apart and found all the components in a baggie in the back of the car.
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:] Biggest reward when you work on old iron is to have something go back together the way it came apart and have it work right the first time.[/QUOTE]

That's when you look on the bench and see two or three parts that belong inside of whatever you took apart. Then it's decision time in River City as to whether or not it should come back apart to have "everything back in it's place".
 
Once had a DB 2/4 convertible arrive at the shop... the *whole car* was in buckets of parts, no rhyme or reason to the order either. Trim bits thrown in with engine parts! Six months of work and the beast was a car again. Many a nightmare generated over that project. Manuals for THAT thing are hen's teeth, BTW.
 
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