Replacing my Brakes Options

[purple]

This weekend was step one of two of replacing the brakes on my '76. The previous owner upon selling to me told me that he had rebuilt the front calipers and the brake fluid looked very nice and fresh in the master cylinder. Looks like a nice fresh tank of ATE super blue..... I will find out later that what's in that tank doesnt look like what's in the brake lines....

I started this project because when turning the wheels in the rear to set timing, I can hear the left rear brake dragging, and loudly. I feared it was a bearing, but it wasnt. The brake was dragging. I lift the car and put it on 4 jackstands, the evil kind (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) I need some proper pin-thru stands. I have all 4 tires under the car in case the car decides it wants to smoosh me.

I'm using 4 new rebuilt calipers from Eric Shea. With these calipers are 4 new rotors, new front bearings, new seals, 4 new softlines, all new pads. A total of $1038 in parts from Eric.

From the pic...the parts are gorgeous!

[Cupomeat]

Well as it appears that you are giving up on it, I'll only point out one thing and leave it at that.

The pads should be sitting square on the rotors and if there is some lack of parallelism or "because the brake pads are at quite an angle and do not push straight at the rotor" you have something seriously wrong with the install on the brake pads, or similar.

Good thing it did not give you any brake pedal as it seems like a very unsafe situation and better to not have driven it. Any lack of parallelism would result in no ability of the MC to push the wheel calopers enough to do any good.

Check the install against a picture and see what is wrong. You don't need the special tools for pad spreading on the rear of a 914.

Anyway it comes out, I hope you find some peace.

eric

P.S. this is a labor of love and some people don't like that sort of thing. Do what works for you.