1979 Ford F150 4X4 brake job

[scooter18155]

yup dont give up hope on that truck. just because its difficult doesnt mean it not fixable. the difference between you doing it and the mechanic doing it is the $ you pay the mechanic. Is what ya need to do is take a step back for a few days to relax and calm down and then go at it again. sometimes after a decent break what seemed so hard and agrivating comes easily. your agrivation and low patience works against you. instead of trying to think of the solution to fix it your thinking of how mad and agrivated you are. you are in a way becoming your own worst enemy allowing yourself to get flustered over it. thats my experience with it. ive gotten mad and pissed cause something doesnt go my way and give up figuring im stuck and hopeless working on something for 2-3 hrs and come back a day or 2 later and have it done in 15-30 mins cause i was calm clear headed and noticed something i didnt before.

[75K30]

^^^^^Excellent advice!!!
Patience is probably the best tool in the box. Cant buy it, but is probably the most valuable tool you can own.....

[hotrodpc]

I am sure glad I am not the only Dr. Phil on the forum. But yep, I agree. Maybe Erwin and NonGoogle need to go have a beer, relax for the weekend and get back at it Monday with a differant attitude. Don't let a hunk of steel beat you and empty out your pockets paying someone else to do it. For the money you will pay someone else, you can buy the tools you need to do it yourself, and have the tools and know how the next time it needs done.

[ErwinRommel]

It just peed me off . I don't want to get it started and come across something then try to work on it and then messing it up and cost me alot of $$$.
Ah...

I need a workshop....AND have a couple of calenders will Elly May Clampet on them in her bakini with a martinie!

I just want the truck running to go to the beach next weekend!

[hotrodpc]

Yep, I need a workshop too, in a bad way. My 2 car garage is full of stuff, so I can't work on anything in there. I was hoping to build a 30x40 shop in the backyard someday. That was the whole reason I bought this house. Never got to it, the wife and I decided to buy us a bigger house for live in forever, so never put the money into the building the shop here. Then the divorce, so the dream of moving to a bigger house never happened. I just need to build my shop here as I had planned to 10 years ago. Now the funds are dried up. Someday !!!! Someday !!! But hey, at least you knocked off a piece, that ought to make you feel better. But if you didn't do it right and finish, then you need to go back and do it again right this time. Geez dude, we tell you how to fix your truck, do we have to tell you how to do that too???

[ErwinRommel]

Originally Posted by hotrodpc

Yep, I need a workshop too, in a bad way. My 2 car garage is full of stuff, so I can't work on anything in there. I was hoping to build a 30x40 shop in the backyard someday. That was the whole reason I bought this house. Never got to it, the wife and I decided to buy us a bigger house for live in forever, so never put the money into the building the shop here. Then the divorce, so the dream of moving to a bigger house never happened. I just need to build my shop here as I had planned to 10 years ago. Now the funds are dried up. Someday !!!! Someday !!! But hey, at least you knocked off a piece, that ought to make you feel better. But if you didn't do it right and finish, then you need to go back and do it again right this time. Geez dude, we tell you how to fix your truck, do we have to tell you how to do that too???

Well the problem is that the big cup thing that keeps the bearing from popping out won't come out (it has the holes where the hub lock bolts go into). It will move but it won't pop off. I did everything. I beat, I kicked, I punched, I argued, I made a peace treaty, I hit with tools, I went inside and sat for a bit, I pulled, I slammed and still no luck! The thing seems like it is just stuck on there. What will pee me off is that someone comes up...does a little thing to it that was so easy....so easy... and the rotor pops off.
Man that will grind my gears so much....it would burn me up!

[hotrodpc]

And that is exactly how it will happen too. They set on there they can get tight. I have wheel on the 80 GMC I can not get off. Yes, a freakin wheel? I've kicked it, beat it with a 5 lb sledge, a dead blow hammer etc. I am beating the rubber tire though, not the steel wheel itself. I left it for now and will attack it latter, I just wanted to rotate tires is all.

[ErwinRommel]

Originally Posted by hotrodpc

And that is exactly how it will happen too. They set on there they can get tight. I have wheel on the 80 GMC I can not get off. Yes, a freakin wheel? I've kicked it, beat it with a 5 lb sledge, a dead blow hammer etc. I am beating the rubber tire though, not the steel wheel itself. I left it for now and will attack it latter, I just wanted to rotate tires is all.

May I advize you on that?
Try a torch but heat the nuts up and then turn them and see if that works. Usually does because we do that to our nuts on our harrows at work.

If that doesn't work. Just use the torch to burn the wheel studs off.

[hotrodpc]

eww Heat the nuts. Doesn't sound good. No the lug nuts are off, the wheel should just fall off. Its stuck to the brake drum. Rear wheel.

[ErwinRommel]

Originally Posted by hotrodpc

eww Heat the nuts. Doesn't sound good. No the lug nuts are off, the wheel should just fall off. Its stuck to the brake drum. Rear wheel.

HEH.
Well it won't hurt the nuts.
Well heat up the steel rim and beat on the tire. You can always get another rim.
It's probably so much rust and it has built up over the years.