39-48 Parking Brake Lever Problem

mgm60 said:
I've looked online and a few vendors sell 91A-2125 or 51A-2125 but I think those clips are like the ones I already have. If anyone knows if either of those part numbers are like the one circled in the photo let me know.
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the pic on post #21 is an exact image of my left rear brake backing plate on my '41. and it appears there were many minor modifications on this arrangement over a couple of decades, so it's easy to get them confused...as i have demonstrated here more than one occasion! ha

on my '41 that rearmost clip is a two part clip. the shoe goes under the lowest part and the e-brake on the upper.

during assembly getting that rear shoe under the lower-most part and the e-brake lever into that upper part can be a bear. not to mention having to horse that spring lever cable on to the bottom of it.
 
I bet it would not be too difficult too make that clip if you could find a piece of thin spring steel. Might be worth a try.
 
19Fordy said:
I bet it would not be too difficult too make that clip if you could find a piece of thin spring steel. Might be worth a try.
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believe it or not i found a used '41 brake backing plate on ebay in good enough condition for use, and for a reasonable price. but installing it warn't easy...and breaking those upper adjustor cams loose did a job on my right rotator cuff that's still in the process of healing a year later. smh
 
That's good news. Be careful and take care of yourself. We don't heal as quickly as when we were 22, unfortunately.
 
I thought I left a post about the bent e brake happening . Oh well I’ll try again , sorry if not revelent . The ebrake cable has the clip between the end ball and the spring , it belongs on the end of the coil spring near the tube coming through the backing plate . Where it is now would allow the cable to come loose from the e brake ( parking brake ) arm
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Here's that clip. You can make one out of the spring banding used to band boxes .
 

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Turns out my problem was most likely that last post from Terry, OH. I did learn a thing or two about 46-48 backing plates and parking brake arms. My backing plates have the correct brake shoe clips as Ford only made the two tiered clip pre-war. The parking brake lever is also different pre and post war. My fellow Early Ford V8 club member, Keith Smart, schooled me on the difference and sold me a pair of the correct ones.
Even with the correct arm, until I reversed the return spring to come in the back side of the rear shoe, the brake lever arm stood out to far from the shoe web and likely would have come in contact with the drum again.
Hopefully all good now. Here are some pics of the different parking brake levers and the spring orientation called out by Terry, OH.
Parking brake levers, pre-war on the left and post-war on the right.
 

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mgm60 said:
Turns out my problem was most likely that last post from Terry, OH. I did learn a thing or two about 46-48 backing plates and parking brake arms. My backing plates have the correct brake shoe clips as Ford only made the two tiered clip pre-war. The parking brake lever is also different pre and post war. My fellow Early Ford V8 club member, Keith Smart, schooled me on the difference and sold me a pair of the correct ones.
Even with the correct arm, until I reversed the return spring to come in the back side of the rear shoe, the brake lever arm stood out to far from the shoe web and likely would have come in contact with the drum again.
Hopefully all good now. Here are some pics of the different parking brake levers and the spring orientation called out by Terry, OH.
Parking brake levers, pre-war on the left and post-war on the right.
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yes, the return spring for the shoes must be inserted properly. it can be inserted two different ways (from the front or from the back of the shoes, actually it's more complicated than that but it would take to much time to explain it) , but only one of them will permit the lever running to the e-brake cable to sit tightly to the backing plate. otherwise the lever will stick out a bit.

when reassembling my rear brakes i had to assemble and disassemble the spring, levers and brake shoes multiple times before i got it right, such that both of the e-brake levers were installed correctly and sat tight to the brake backing plate.

i had a devil of a time with it, until my research pointed out the subtle requirement.
 
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