Hi Everyone,
As you may know, I have both a homebuilt electric car, as well as a "Classic" EV - a 1977 Citicar.
I have barely used the Citicar for the last while, because the brakes don't work.
Today, I took the car over to my friend, Rich, also known as "Mr. Speed."
The brakes on these cars are now kinda notorious. Back in the 70's these were cheap and easily available parts, but now they are a little more difficult to find. Also, there were few enough Citicars made that they don't show up in the computer systems of auto parts stores. You usually have to find the old guy at the store who has dusty old catalog books to help locate parts.
Anyways, we completely removed and took apart all the brakes. On the one, we polished it up and honed out the inside of brake cylinder. We weren't able to find the brake rebuild kits at the local parts store, so we just finished removing all the other brakes and prep for the rebuild.
Here's what the parts look like cleaned up and spread out.
On the back of the car, the whole driven axle assembly needs to get yanked out to rebuild the brakes. We used a puller to remove the retaining ring and bearing.
One of the brake spiders must have been replaced at some point, because it was different that the others. Notice the one in the middle of the photo:
That's also the only one marked with a part number, so it might make it easier to find the right parts for the rebuild kit from the store.
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