Previous Practices For many years, all spring brake chambers installed on heavy-duty vehicles used a threaded push-rod that is cut to the proper length as specified by the manufacturer. These rod ...

To install the spring retainers, use your fingers, needle-nose pliers or a brake shoe tool (the best choice) to compress and rotate the spring 90 degrees, which locks the pin in the top plate of ...

The guys at Global West fix the spongy brakes on this 1964 Dodge Dart. Find out how they did it only at hotrod.com or the May 2012 issue of HOT ROD Magazine.

The lightweight, corrosion-resistant, double-diaphragm EverSureBendix Spicer Foundation Brake is now making a "next-generation" double-diaphragm spring brake for drum systems that’s said to offer the ...

We followed along step-by-step as Dean Livermore of Hot Rods by Dean in Phoenix, Arizona, installed a Wilwood (Camarillo, CA) disc/drum internal parking brake kit on a Currie (Anaheim, CA) 9-inch ...

Q:I have a soft brake pedal problem on my 2006 Ford F-150. I've read several posts about the brake actuator rod being the cause. I removed the two nuts holding the master cylinder in place, but it ...