1966 Ford Galaxie 500 XL Refurbishment : 006 Front Brakes Refurbish
2023, November 14
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The 1966 galaxie 500 XL originally came with power 4 wheel drum brakes. One of the immediate upgrades was to migrate to 4 wheel power disc brakes. I've seen some of the aftermarket kits for these cars. Some are rather sketchy. Since the rat rod project (1968 LTD) was abandoned it made sense to pillage the factory disc brakes off that car. Now these brakes aren't cheap to refurbish either, but at least they are OEM parts.
Driver side
Passenger side. I think Ronald Reagan was president last time these worked.
In order to still move the car I just replaced these with drum spindles and hubs to put the tyres back on.
Fords paranoia wire on the caliper bracket bolts. Not very elegantly done.
Here's all the dilapidated disc brake parts off the '68 LTD. The splash shields were bent over on themselves on the bottom.
First thing was to unbend and straighten the splash shields best I could. Loads of time spent with a hammer and dolly as well as the torch to shrink the metal so it would lie flat.
All hardware, bearings and races were really bad, so it received all new goodies. The hub was powder coated.
Same thing with the calipers. The calipers and pistons were still serviceable but everything else pretty much wasn't. The calipers were powder coated as well.
Sometimes my anal retentiveness knows no bounds. Every single piece of hardware (nut, bolt, washer, clip, etc) was clear coated and baked to cure. Any original hardware like these that were re-used were sand blasted, blackened then clear coated.
New pads, these are semi-metallic.
Round 1 of anti-rattle clips.
For the hose kits since these brakes aren't common, there is only one company making these. It's about 160 dollars for the 3 piece kit, beggars can't be choosers. It's a stainless braid in a polymer line, they should last for a couple of decades.
The rotors are a bit pricey as well at about 90 dollars shipped.
The rotors need to be pressed onto the hub via the studs.
New races installed as well. But this concludes refinishing the front disc brake parts.
