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AUTOMOBILE BRAKE SYSTEM sa AUTOMOBILE BRAKE LIGHT x BRAKE (AUTOMOBILE) xx AUTOMOBILE A non-mechanics guide to getting brake work done. Five tips to help identify car brake problems. How to use anti-lock brakes. Making your car drive straight again. Adjustments to your brake and suspension system. Cures for spongy brakes. How to bleed brakes. Checking disc runout. Checking disc brakes. Preventive maintenance for automobile parking brakes. Troubleshooting brakes which don't work properly. Troubleshooting your brake system. Disc brake diagnosis. Adjusting front wheel bearings. How to get the best brake job for your money. Disc-brake diagnosis. Suggested annual inspection covers front and rear disc brakes. New-tech brake check. Disk brake and drum brake annual inspection procedure. Antilock brake systems. How ABS works, plus maintenance and troubleshooting advice. Some winter-specific maintenance tips for automobile brakes. Tip on removing the rear drum off a late-model Volkswagen Rabbit. Tips on doing your own brake work. Take care of your brakes. Now you can add power brakes to your car using a Bendix kit. Care and treatment of disk brakes. Reline your own brakes. Replacing and adjusting front and rear brake shoes. Servicing power brakes and power steering. Installing brake conversion kits to change self-adjusting brakes back to manual adjusting system. Taking care of the dual brake system. Taking care of drum brakes. Maintaining and replacing brake shoes and other parts. Doing your own brake job, either drum or disk. How to adjust and repair rear drum brakes. Care care. Servicing disc brakes. How to bleed modern brakes. Understanding your car's brake system. How to silence noisy brakes. Maintenance of power brakes. Part 1. Maintenance of power brakes. Part 2. Tearing down the power assist. Check out and repair your brakes. Part 1. Check out and repair your brakes. Part 2. Determining the cause of brake problems with power brakes. How to do a complete brake system inspection. How to do a complete brake job. How to repair disc brakes. How to troubleshoot and fix a car's power-assist brake unit. Tips on replacing front drum brakes with disk brakes from a wrecked car. How to get a professional brake job at a do-it-yourself price. Car Care Guide. How to inspect and service your car's brake system. Includes instructions on troubleshooting the power-assist unit. How to replace disc-brake pads. What you should know about fluids for your car (transmission fluid, brake fluid, antifreeze coolant, motor oil and power steering fluid.) Car Care Guide. Servicing brakes and transmissions. PM 1975 Car Care Guide. Braking system: how it works and how to keep it working. How to replace disc brake pads. Troubleshooting brake systems. PM 1976 Car Care Guide. How to overhaul drum brake systems. Part 1. Tools you will need and how to remove to old shoes and clean and inspect the drums. How to overhaul drum brake systems. Part 2. How to overhaul cylinders, and reassemble everything. Fifth Annual Car Care Guide. Part 10. Brakes. PM 1979 Car Care Guide. A look at warning signs of brake trouble and how to troubleshoot a brake system. How to inspect and maintain your brake system. Tip: Use a C-clamp to hold pistons when changing disc-brake pads. 1982 car care guide. A special section with emphasis on engine problems, wheel vibration, loss of brakes and diesel starting problems. Troubleshooting your brake system. Tip on eliminating loose disc brake pads which can cause brake squeal. Tips on replacing your glycol brake fluid with silicone brake fluid. Servicing disc brakes. How to solve five tough brake problems. Tip: How to roughen-up a rotor surface using a sanding disc without removing the rotor from the car. SPECIAL SECTION: How to tune up your whole car to keep it running and looking like new. Step-by-step guide for tuning up your engine, chassis, interior, and exterior. Performance tuning guide. All the how-to you need to get better automobile handling. Covers wheels, brakes, tires, shocks, and cornering. Using a straightedge to determine if your rear brake drums are "true". Correct procedure for bleeding the Sable/Taurus brake hydraulic system. Tip on using Molykote M77 lubricant to quiet noisy brakes. Reconditioning brake calipers. How to rebuild your own calipers using caliper rebuilding kits for each wheel equipped with disc brakes. Tip on cleaning mating faces of hub and drum/rotor when replacing a brake drum or disc. Tip on proper way to support a disc brake caliper while working on disc or strut without removing the brake line. How to keep your brake fluid from boiling (thus causing a loss of brakes) when trailering a heavy load down a steep grade. How to rebuild brake calipers. Tip on removing a brake drum so that it will be reinstalled with exactly the same orientation. Inspecting disc brakes. A step-by-step procedure. Troubleshooting antilock (ABS) brakes. Maintaining drum brakes. Reducing rolling resistance. Maintenance advice on tires, alignment, wheel bearings and brakes. Curing disk brake squeal. Maintenance basics for servicing brakes. The whole car tuneup. (1) Tune up your engine. (2) Tune up your exterior. (3) Tune up your chassis. (4) Tune up your interior. Tips on bleeding a modern master cylinder equipped with double circuits and an assortment of internal valves. Servicing drum brakes. Tip shows how to remove the piston from a brake caliper using air pressure. A tip on bleeding the air out of a brake system. Tip on manual bleeding of brake system which will avoid damaging the master cylinder. Flushing your automobile brake system to remove contaminated brake fluid. Remedy for pulsating antilock brakes. Spring car care hints. Servicing the new disk brakes. Automobile brakes. How to buy them, use them and maintain them. How much do you know about your car's brake system? A quiz to test your knowledge. Auto-maintenance basics. Part 12. Inspecting and servicing your parking brakes. Auto-maintenance basics. Part 19. How to inspect and repair your car's brakes. Covers front disk brakes, rebuilding the caliper and rear drum brakes. Tip on adjusting parking brake cable. Tip: How to check for a bad power-brake unit. Tip: Use air compressor to remove disc-brake piston. Tip: How to bench-bleed a new master cylinder. Tip: How to remove the brake-shoe retainer/holddown spring assembly using ordinary pliers. Tips on honing a wheel cylinder. The thinking man's guide to car maintenance. Disc-brake systems. Tip on avoiding damage to the steel brake line on older cars when replacing wheel cylinder. A professional's guide to troubleshooting front disc brakes. How these brakes work, how to spot a problem, and what to do about it. A professional's guide to trouble-shooting drum brakes. How to do the job correctly and safely the first time. Tip on adjusting parking brake. Tip on locating a vacuum leak in the floating control valve of your brake system master cylinder. Tip on purging old brake fluid when repairing front-disk-brakes. Tip on cleaning out the cooling vents on a car's disc-brake rotors. Tip on freeing up a rear brake drum self-adjuster. Power brakes and how to keep them working. Install a brake fluid reservoir. Give yourself a brake. Replace your own brake shoes and save. Est. cost: $15-$20. Maintaining and understanding the brake hydraulic system. Tips on inspecting your hydraulic brake system. Special wrench socket to retract rear disc brake caliper pistons (those equipped with a screw adjuster). Two-wheel external contracting brakes. Care and repair. Part 1. Two-wheel external contracting brakes. Care and repair. Part 2. Two-wheel external contracting brakes. Care and repair. Part 3. A continuous lubricator for a brake cable is made from a 35mm film canister filled with grease. Bleeding hydraulic brakes the easy way. Tip on using a Food Saver vacuum machine to bleed brakes. Tip for reassembling drum brake self-adjusting units. Silicone brake fluid review. Part 1. A review of the various types, two methods for retrofitting a vehicle to use silicone fluid, and the results of various field tests. Silicone brake fluid review. Part 2. Difference between silicone and glycol fluids, user reports, etc. Tip on using a grease gun to free a frozen wheel cylinder piston. Tip on keeping metal fuel or brake lines from failing by bending a loop in the line to absorb vibrations. Brake line blocker. Simple tool that keeps brake fluid from leaking out of the open end of a brake line. The importance of brake shoe clearance in cars of the 1930s. Tips on checking and making adjustments. Servicing the postwar Volkswagen Beetle. Part 3. Front wheel bearings and brake service. Making and installing lubricators for Bendix Duo-Servo mechanical brake system cables. Bendix three-shoe mechanical brake systems. An overview of their application, operation and maintenance. Bendix duo-servo double anchor mechanical brakes. A list of automobiles using this brake system, plus adjustment and maintenance procedures. Bendix duo-servo single anchor mechanical brakes. A list of automobiles using this brake system, plus adjustment and maintenance procedures. Model A Ford brakes. Their character and service. Shop built heavy-duty puller to remove wheel drums that have bonded to brake shoes by corrosion. Chevrolet Corvair brake system servicing. Part 1. Chevrolet Corvair brake system servicing. Part 2. Proper installation of high pressure hoses found on braking, air conditioning, power steering, or cooling systems. Brake service for all makes of U.S. cars 1933-1942. Part 1. Brake service for all makes of U.S. cars 1933-1942. Part 2. Brake service for all makes of U.S. cars 1933-1942. Part 3. Brake service for all makes of U.S. cars 1933-1942. Part 4. Bendix mechanical and Ford mechanical. Converting to radial tires and installing disk brakes on a 1966 Oldsmobile 4-4-2. Some tips. Caution on lubrication requirements of brake systems equipped with vacuum boosters. | |||||||||
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