[AT] de-greasing disc brakes

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

Ralph, Deere brakes are a pain as well. First you can't get them tight 
enough and then they are too tight. Back in the 60's My dad and Uncle had 
the same thing happen to them on a Deere 55, brakes were dragging going down 
the highway, had to adjust them on the side of the road. Back when I got my 
55 in the early 90's I had to play around quite a bit to get the brakes 
working properly. Eventually I had to open them up and clean everything up, 
worked much better after that.

On a side note, anybody here ever have farm equipment with mechanical disc 
brakes that actually worked like they were supposed to for more than just a 
couple seasons? The only thing we ever had here with them were Deere 
combines, and a DC Case. Dad despised IH tractors that used them.



My plan is to try to get a toaster oven Fri. so I can see what cooks out of 
these Sat.

John Hall


-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Goff
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 1:13 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] de-greasing disc brakes

On 9/22/2015 8:39 PM, Mike wrote:
>    Probably not when you're combining, but I bet they do stopping in road
> gear.
>
> Mike M
>
>
> On 9/22/2015 9:36 PM, jtchall at nc.rr.com wrote:
>> You really think they get that hot on a combine?
The only time my combine brakes got hot was when they failed to release
properly and were dragging as I transported down the road at 16 mph.
Eventually the smoke behind me
clued me in to what was going on. No visible damage but the brakes got
hot enough to let the smoke out. Seemed to be a weakness on the IH
rotary combines that the brake levers
  did not release properly after use and would drag. Not noticeable in
the field at low speed but road speed would heat them up to the smoking
level.
I solved the problem by manually prying the levers into neutral and
never using the brakes again. You don't need them on a hydro drive
machine anyway.
I've tried cleaning up old tractor disk brakes as well as some truck
shoes. While they appear to clean up fine I find they always tended to
be grabby after that.

Ralph in Sask.
>>

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