GRIZZ’s ‘79 - 2WD BLAZER Challenge over in London, England. “~It’s not a Project~”

[Grizz1963]

So yesterday I went to play with the callipers

Started off by cleaning them and seeing of the pistons would even move with pads in place, and a large screwdriver to encourage them.



Removed the pipes.



Then fired up my supersized compressor to drive the pressure through the system to try budge the pistons.

Sealed the front end with good old ductape



Ultimately, my skills and the condition of the callipers did not match up.

So I will walk away from these, probably try sell them to someone who is a dab hand at refurbishment of callipers to sort out.

Then replace the callipers and buy some new pads and hardware.

Will get to that next week.



Following this I went to the rear brakes.

Remember this ?




Would have covered this lot at some point.

Missing two studs, and one off the front hub too.

Sure there will be some somewhere to buy or scavenge.



Looking decent from here.



Whoooops……

OK, maybe not.

So that will be new drums, pads and possibly hardware or a rebuild for the rear.



Also fitted the 4x108 to 4x100 @20mm thick adapters and 5mm spacer.

This gets the wheels right out to the edge of the mudguards.

I will look at a small engineering solution to replace the wheel nuts the adapters came with, with some studs welded in there, and then some shallow nuts to hold them onto the hubs.



Of course with light failing, I had to at least try the wheels on as well.

Seems like everything fits in there, despite the drum being absent.



And some centre caps/cups will need to be sourced at some point.




Today slow day, due to no new parts to fit, will probably be to go back to the body and start working on the screen support for the Land Rover screen @glenanderson donated to the build.

Or maybe rip out all the gauges that were fitted before, none of which I intend to use……..

Remember what it looked like when we fetched it.

Rear drum in evidence too.




Centre console not my taste.



Coffee, then garage.

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