I put 1,000 miles on the new to me ‘69 40 last summer/fall. No hiccups. I had performed a post purchase inspection of the drum brakes and to my pleasant surprise, everything looked freshly replaced. I adjusted everything and enjoyed proper braking performance until i parked the truck and left town for work for 4 months.
Returned home to no brake fluid in the master cylinder reservoir, it had all leaked down onto the drivers floorboard . Life got in the way but i ordered rebuild kits for the brake and clutch cylinders. Got all three rebuilt this weekend, and decided to take another look at the brakes before i spent a bunch of time bleeding brakes. Drivers rear drum coated in diff oil and liners soaked . More parts on order.
Everything else looked OK, but the shoe liners on the rear passenger had some cracking. Would like to get another couple thousand out of these shoe liners before i swap in a late model FJ40 rear axle. Am i a fool for thinking these are OK to run with the cracking shown?
Returned home to no brake fluid in the master cylinder reservoir, it had all leaked down onto the drivers floorboard . Life got in the way but i ordered rebuild kits for the brake and clutch cylinders. Got all three rebuilt this weekend, and decided to take another look at the brakes before i spent a bunch of time bleeding brakes. Drivers rear drum coated in diff oil and liners soaked . More parts on order.
Everything else looked OK, but the shoe liners on the rear passenger had some cracking. Would like to get another couple thousand out of these shoe liners before i swap in a late model FJ40 rear axle. Am i a fool for thinking these are OK to run with the cracking shown?