I am starting the process of replacing my wheel cylinders. Can someone link me to a how-to, step by step directions on this? Also, are the cylinders inter-changable between wheels? And where can I get them at the best (cheapest) price? Oh yeah, it's a 6/71 '40. Thanks.
should be interchangeable as they are the same, i bought new ones from cruiseroutfitters instead of messing around with rebuilding my rusted out pitted garbage ones.
rebuild kits can be bought at napa like 12 bucks a cylinder.
go to sor website and they have exploded views of parts you can look at. dont buy your parts there though. unless you like being raped
I rebuilt my brake system recently for my 1967 FJ40. I bought my master from SOR, but couldn't find OEM cylinders. I had minor shadowing in the cylinders which I honed. I bought rebuild kits from the business posted below; Great service, and they are working great.
They are all different as I recall. Check with TOYOTA as their brake hydraulic parts are very reasonably priced and last for decades.
I no longer have the old style dual cylinder drum brakes, but I did replace a rear axle worth of them and there were 4 DIFFERENT part numbers depending on position. It comes down to line attachments and the orientation of the bleeder.
I dont think you are going to be able to find those from Toyota for that year. I rebuild mine and they were pretty easy to do. Check out Coolerman's site for instuctions on how to do it. You may want to look at some of the parts TrollHole has. I think he has a set listed.
Virtually all used wheel cylinders are pitted, but the vast majority of them are not pitted on the sealing surface where it counts and therefore they are rebuildable.
Just remember, on all four wheels, all eight cylinders, the brakes tighten when the HANDLE of your modified screwdriver (brake adjustment tool) goes AWAY from the axle.
