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Rebuilt a wheel cylinder. It came apart fairly easily. I forgot to grab a before picture, but you can probably imagine what it looked like.




The center cap I powder coated is fighting to keep the red on the cap. I had to turn the psi up all the way to get it to start budging. It's slowly coming off. The chrome came off pretty quickly. I'd assume it has to do with the thickness though. I also lost the center cap in the bottom of the blast cabinet. When something is taking forever to clean off I like to break it up and do something smaller for a little bit. Well I was cleaning up the wheel cylinder and parts and when I went to start on the center cap again it was missing. I had to open the trapdoor and start draining the media out to find it.

I started removing the front brake parts. At first I couldn't figure out how to remove the wheel bearing. Then I remembered to check the chilton and not just the assembly diagrams on CMSNL.com. The chilton says to remove the caliper. Then undo the ball joint, tie rod, and strut and remove the knuckle. Then I can start dis assembly to change the rotor and wheel bearings.

Getting the axle out was actually very easy though. Used an impact on the axle nut and a single hit with a hammer and it popped out of the knuckle.