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Today Russell, Brian, David and I jumped right into the middle of removing the front spindles, the rear drums and backing plates and cleaning and scraping 60 years of grime and rust from some of the parts. The backing plates are being cleaned in order to prime and paint them before adding all new shoes and hardware. The front spindle are being replaced with newly rebuilt ones. The front backing plates need to be redone also before all new shoes and hardware are installed.

Raffle Bus 35 Update - Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025

1 Nov 2025 22:54

Mike and I started trying to do the brakes today and ran into a lot of rusty, crusty roadblocks. Took us almost an hour to remove the passenger side front shock! Quite the ordeal. I’ll be continuing on removing the old worn out knuckles tomorrow and Saturday and breathing life back into the brake system. New hard lines, master cylinder, shoes, hardware…. Everything. That’s gonna take a while, probably into next week. When that’s all done and we can roll the bus back out of the garage, we’ll start back in on the sanding and general prep for interior paint in both the passenger area and the engine bay.