BRU 434B And the Journey Begins - First Engine Removal and more

[High_dan]

I can get the drum on but ones on extremely hard to move. The drums and shoes are new ones from mike dent.

[John A. Ross]

Should be OK then. Let me get the pics for you Dan.

You sure the shoes are just not sitting too low and need centred up, they should follow the same circumference as the pressed ridge on the backplate

[John A. Ross]

Dan

Pics below, those shoes of yours look way out or too low on the backplate.

[High_dan]

Thanks John, will have a look after tea.

[High_dan]

Successful day! Both rear wheels on and handbrake working.

next job is to spray the engine bay with tinted raptor paint.

[John A. Ross]

nice, Raptor is lovely stuff

[High_dan]

John can you use raptor on wheel arches?

[John A. Ross]

Dan, dont see why not, it does not cure shiny though Dan, but on a good prepped surface its as tough as old boots, would be perfect for inside lip

[High_dan]

Very happy today, finished fitting the brakes and plumbing the hard lines and bleed the system this afternoon and all is working with a good peddle feel!

[High_dan]

Happy now John? Haha.

thanks for the motivation to go down this route and extremely happy with the result.

Sure there is mistakes but think it looks great.

[John A. Ross]

Looks fantastic.

Would get masking off as soon as its nearly touch dry or it has habit of sticking the masking tape edge down but few weeks from now it will be brick hard.

Lovely job and looks like the colour was spot on.

- J

[High_dan]

Thanks John, removed 99% of masking.

The colour is a colour match but is 99.9% the same as the original.

it’s actually unimog green!

[John A. Ross]

lm57krm@gmail.com Keith well worth thinking UPOL Raptor for a coating in engine bay of the Singer.

RAPTOR TRUCK BED COATING

[Petowner]

Dan
Looking at the back end , the position of brake light switch union , did you need to put a hole there to bolt it on ? it's just that my pipe from front is just about that position but the hole which l thought union bolted to is way over to the near side , pipes were supplied by Bob and l was wondering it this pipe which is part of a complete set was too short for some reason , suppose another way for me to check is by putting rear cross ways ones in place and see if l can figure out whats wrong by looking at them.
Not averse to putting union where yours is but just seems odd. Was there two different system layouts for some reason?
Bob

[High_dan]

Hi bob,

that’s just the location it was In I havnt modified anything, but one of the previous owners might have.

Bru is a mk1 maybe it changed on later models?