Brakes Broken

The old brake drum

So before we could trailer the Jag to British Sports Cars, Dale first needed to check the brakes on the car. He found that the brakes were binding and the car wouldn’t move. As the car had to be rolled up onto the trailer by hand the brakes had to be free. Dale found that he needed to remove the drums, so that the brake shoes would not bind on the drums, enabling the car to move freely.

Drum is off

In order to remove each drum Dale pried and wiggled each drum back and forth. The drums on the rear wheels came off easily but the 2 front wheels were somewhat of a struggle. After lots of prying finally the front drums came off.

Dale reattached the wheels on the car without the drums. Of course then we didn’t want to roll the car downhill as it would crash without any breaks.

After 40 years we can expect these things.