1st Time Jeep Owner

[bmorgil]

Mice can be incredibly destructive. It looks like the top survived. The top is a super nice feature for a Jeep your going to "kick" around in!

[LarrBeard]

Mice - little bas&^%$s!..

The '48 sat in an old barn for a long time and a new pole barn as well - and the mice build a fortress in the bell housing. It was packed almost as tightly as a hay bale. The smell did not go away until well after we finished bead blasting the bell housing and etch priming the sheet metal.

[Catlewis]

Top temporarily installed and moved the Jeep last evening. Hate to stop working as it seems to be getting close to a "first drive". Also a picture of why the Jeep needs to move. Gotta make some truck repairs! IMG_1791.jpg IMG_1757.jpg

[bmorgil]

Yikes the truck is hurt!

I know what you mean, you just have to make yourself stop sometimes. The closer it gets the more you think, well a few hours more....

[Catlewis]

[QUOTE=bmorgil;22651]Yikes the truck is hurt!

Working on brakes. does anyone know which shoe goes towards the rear? Appears each pair has one shoe with more friction material. when I disassembled the shoe smaller amount was towards the rear? just want to make certain this is correct.

[bmorgil]

This is a great question. Somewhere we had a discussion about this.

In the Universal manual, it states, "Note: On some vehicles the lining on the forward shoe is longer than the lining on the rear shoe."

Through the years, general mechanics practice has always been to put the small shoe to the front and the long shoe to the rear. In the early 40's and 50's it was either way. Eventually the general consensuses among manufacturers was, the forward shoe received more pressure from the force of the stopping vehicle compressing the drum rearward, therefore requiring less surface area than the rear of the drum. The older thought was the extra brake material in the front of the drum will provide more stopping power because of the weight of the vehicle compressing the drum rearward. In the end now a days if you are working on drums, the small shoe goes to the front.

I personally think it makes little difference. I always put the small shoe forward because that's how I was taught.

Here it is: https://willysjeepforum.kaiserwillys...-front-or-back