DailyDato Posted November 9, 2010 Report Share Posted November 9, 2010 Everyone seems to be on the search for the hard to find non replacement brake adjusters for the front and rear drum brakes off most common dato's Http://www.rockauto.com they are listed as miscellanous brake parts, but they are under $8 NEW well plus shipping, just figured I would share what i found. They have a limited supply left, so once they are gone, they are gone. Quote Link to comment
nathan_454 Posted November 12, 2010 Report Share Posted November 12, 2010 Fed-ex Just delivered all the parts all the parts for my rear brake job today, including these... they are good quality Beck Arnley pieces, but for whatever reason the adjuster screws are Loc-tited into the adjust sleeve. i had to battle with them a little to get them apart and free'd up, other then that top notch! Quote Link to comment
DailyDato Posted November 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 Fedex just deliverd my parts, very nice, Beck Arnley, didn't have any issue with the adjusters having loctite, got drums and hoses and a new master cylinder too, great buy, shipping was cheap to, even from texas to tennessee. Quote Link to comment
Stupid_fast Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 edit, nvm stupid question... Do the later Datsun adjusters fit the 510? Quote Link to comment
Buzzbomb Posted November 27, 2010 Report Share Posted November 27, 2010 I saw these on Rock Auto too and was tempted to get some..Before I did, however, I wondered if the old ones could be "rebuilt"? Can you pop the old ones out and soak them in mystery oil or something to get them to free up? You can sometimes do this with Chevy stuff, and while a different design, the Datsun stuff operates on the same principle. Anybody done this? I would think once you get the shims off the backing plate, you can pop the adjusters off and soak the heck out of them by dropping them in some sort of lubricant. Quote Link to comment
Chris#51EPGraham Posted November 27, 2010 Report Share Posted November 27, 2010 510 rear screw type brake adjusters sieze up horribly. I'm not surprised the OP got new ones he thought were loctited, but no - that just means they siezed up in the climate controlled indoors sitting on a shelf. The thread tolerances are extremely tight because it's an extra fine thread, plus the affects of aluminum to steel electrolysis, plus weather. I've gotten badly siezed ones apart after soaking in trans fluid for months/years. Then I made them serviceable by replacing original adjuster stud thing with a bolt of the same threading, with the end modified to have similar flats on it. This reduces adjustment range, but the 17 or 19 mm bolt head makes the thing adjustable with normal socket tools. I don't recall the threading spec exactly - it was an extra fine M12 and wasn't that hard to find. Quote Link to comment
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