Learned a New Brake Term Today

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Looked around for hours trying to find the "anchor pin plate" that I cleaned yesterday along with the other brake hardware I removed for cleaning. Tomorrow I'll keep looking. If it really ran away from home, my local fabricator guy is more than capable of making me one more.

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I must admit I would not have remembered what those are.
 
Are those for the drum brake pivot pins? I realize I'm showing my lack of knowledge, but I'm ready to learn.
 
70dart340 said:
Are those for the drum brake pivot pins? I realize I'm showing my lack of knowledge, but I'm ready to learn.
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Yes. They go over the pin at the top of the backing plate. The brake springs then install in front of the anchor plates effectively holding them on and keeping the shoes in place at the top.
 
RustyRatRod said:
Yes. They go over the pin at the top of the backing plate. The brake springs then install in front of the anchor plates effectively holding them on and keeping the shoes in place at the top.
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I've has issues with several types of aftermarket hardware not being worth a darn in the last 10 years or so
 
I thought it was just me that put stuff down and go back and it's gone. I'm still looking for the shoulder nut I took off the rear shock absorber on my 74 Duster. To make one I used a chrome lug nut and ground two flats on it so I could tighten it. Seems like nobody has that stupid nut.
 
tonysrt said:
I thought it was just me that put stuff down and go back and it's gone. I'm still looking for the shoulder nut I took off the rear shock absorber on my 74 Duster. To make one I used a chrome lug nut and ground two flats on it so I could tighten it. Seems like nobody has that stupid nut.
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anyone seen the pork loin I bought yesterday?
 
tonysrt said:
I thought it was just me that put stuff down and go back and it's gone. I'm still looking for the shoulder nut I took off the rear shock absorber on my 74 Duster. To make one I used a chrome lug nut and ground two flats on it so I could tighten it. Seems like nobody has that stupid nut.
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That i because the shoulder nut as seen in the set on the tight was not factory. They came with coil overs and air shocks. You don't use them with standard shocks. You would use the set on the left.

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I did have air shocks in the car when I bought it and threw them away but it didn't have coil overs. So thanks for the info on that it.
 
Update: I raked the yard three times, going perpendicular to the previous raking each time. Looked around everywhere, even in the street out front and no sign of the anchor pin plate. Now resigned to fabricate one, I squatted down to the rear passenger side 9 inch brake assembly to remove the sample plate. What I found is the plate was missing on that side, now leading me to believe that both sides were missing all this time.

I have never seen a drum brake assembly without having these plates installed. I'm 99% percent sure they were factory installed.

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To be truthful after working on Disc brakes I hate all the springs and parts for drum brakes and luckily when in the rear not done as often as the front discs.
 
dibbons said:
I'm 99% percent sure they were factory installed.
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Update to post #11: After comparing the front 10" backing plate and the rear 9" backing plate, I find the 9" anchor pin is perhaps not machined for the anchor pin plate. The 10" has its own little relief step for the plate (photo #1) and the 9" does not have the same relief (photo #2).

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RustyRatRod said:
Yes. They go over the pin at the top of the backing plate. The brake springs then install in front of the anchor plates effectively holding them on and keeping the shoes in place at the top.
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Once again, Thanks Georgia. I'll be home to central Florida by the end of the year. We'll meet for BBQ. Until then, keep me entertained. Paul.
 
70dart340 said:
Once again, Thanks Georgia. I'll be home to central Florida by the end of the year. We'll meet for BBQ. Until then, keep me entertained. Paul.
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Yeah. This BBQ. Fincher's Bar-B-Q. A staple in Macon since 1935.
Fincher's Bar-B-Q
The first Bar-B-Q that made it into space. Astronaut Sonny Carter was the first to take Bar-B-Q into space and he chose Fincher's. When Pigs Fly, baby.
When Pigs Fly: Central Georgia astronaut takes BBQ to space | 13wmaz.com
We got the world's best hot dogs, too, and the only right way to spell weiner.
Nu-Way Weiners
Since 1916, second only to Nathan's in age, but Nathan's don't hold a candle to Nu Way. They even made the Food Network. I even got SGBARRACUDA (Roy) (RIP) hooked on um when he came to see us once and he always had to have some whenever he came to Perry to see his daughter. There's more than one way to spell weiner and in middle Georgia it's the only way. lol
 
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