First job this week was to make new gaiters for the rear brake servo. These are now awaiting the attention of the seamstress. After that, I touched up the paint on the cab door window with undercoat. Progress slowed a bit then, but some scraping and cleaning of the chassis and mounting bracket for the servo was carried in preparation for paint and the servo forward mounting block through-bolt was cleaned and made a better fit in the servo. A little relief of the servo appears necessary, too, to ensure that the block allows a little adjustment of the servo horizontal position.
Tag Archives: brakes
7/12/2025
Started the week by cleaning and painting the brake rods with silver Hammerite and silvering the oil filler pot off the main servo. The parts and Neatsfoot oil I was waiting on arrived, so I assembled the servo piston, incorrectly, as it turned out, which wasted a day’s work but was quickly corrected and I finished assembly of the servo vacuum cylinder. I’m awaiting a spanner of the correct size so I can dismantle and clean the distributor valve on the top of the servo, so I will make the gaiters next week.
9/11/2025
Activity has been zero of late, due to other pressures, but I did manage to clean the rear brake servo and its oil dashpot at the start of the week. As time allowed, I continued work on the servo, removing the two air intake covers which were choked with oily filth.