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Kiwitrucker · 06-20-2022, 07:44 PM

While rebuilding the brakes on my early '28 with the split cross shaft, I noticed someone has replaced 3 of the rods with adjustable ones. I set the rods to what I thought was good but find I now have fantastic front brakes (where the remaining original rod is on one side) and virtually no rear ones. Would anyone know what the correct front and rear non-adjustable rod lengths are?

old ugly · 06-20-2022, 09:27 PM

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i just tried looking that up the other day.
what i found was, on the first page of the ford bulletins book is where it talks about the early brake rods and adjusting them.
check those bulletins and see if what you need is in there.

06-20-2022, 07:44 PM	#1
Kiwitrucker Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2018 Posts: 2	Equalizer Cross Shaft Brake Rods While rebuilding the brakes on my early '28 with the split cross shaft, I noticed someone has replaced 3 of the rods with adjustable ones. I set the rods to what I thought was good but find I now have fantastic front brakes (where the remaining original rod is on one side) and virtually no rear ones. Would anyone know what the correct front and rear non-adjustable rod lengths are?

06-20-2022, 09:27 PM	#2
old ugly Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2021 Location: alberta canada Posts: 585	Re: Equalizer Cross Shaft Brake Rods Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) i just tried looking that up the other day. what i found was, on the first page of the ford bulletins book is where it talks about the early brake rods and adjusting them. check those bulletins and see if what you need is in there. __________________ old ugly my old father-in-law told me. "listen close when people tell you how to do stuff they may know something. then do it the way you want."