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Here is the inside of what the both of my wheel cylinders looked like. Does the TM call for that? Prolly not. All of that gunk is definetly not supposed to be there and should be thouroughly cleaned prior to the rebuilt. I used brake cleaner and a garden hose.

If you pry the boots on the wheel cylinders back and fluid comes out you have problems and should rebuild/replace your cylinders. To disassemble them pry the boots off and remove them along with the linkages. Then you'll see the inside of the pistons. behind those pistons are rubber seals and a...

That is how it sit's right now because i'm waiting on brake rebuilt kits. All that is left to do is reinstall the wheel cylinders that I removed, install brakes shoes, adjust them, install drum/wheel hub, adjust bearing load, and put that cap and the wheel back on and it's done. I'll post the...

Now install the brake assembly and don't forget that ring that also goes on the studs. There are 2 cuts made on the ring and those straight parts of the ring make sort of a point at the top pointing at the wheel cylinder.

If you want to replace the hub seals, as I did regardless of condition, pry them off with a screwdriver or the back of a hammer or something. Then I pressed the new ones on by tapping the seal around in circles with a long 3/8" extension. I put a folded rag between the seal and extension each...

Clean the axle shafts up and especially where the seal makes it's home upon axle installation near the thrust surface. Install the axle and you'll feel the nice tight seal it makes on the last inch or so of movement.

Now start packing the axle with grease. I bought the blue surgical looking gloves for $2 for 10. These are also great for washing parts with brake cleaner in your hand and avoiding organ failure. You can feel parts alot better with these over the mechanix gloves. Each side takes about 2# of...

Get your friend to help you install the outer clamp. It's a pain to keep on the groove without the clamp tight and in place. Keep checking around the knuckle as you tighten.

Install the steering knuckle over the top kingpin like removal and let it hang. Then install top and bottom kingpin bushings.

With the inner seal retainers out you need to replace the seals now. I set the retainer in with seal-down in a vise so the seal could fall out. Used a small punch and hammer and worked my way in circles unil the seal fell out. They are in there good. New seals said "outside" on one side which...

Here is where the brake cleaner comes in handy. Clean everything up. Brake cleaner eats the red primer off is you scrub it hard to be easy on it. Now I slipped the new zipperless boots over the kingpins and installed the inner clamp. All of these boot clamps must be pretty tight, but don't...

I chose to pull the boots over the kingpins istead of cutting them in half to do some of the cleaning for me. Checkout the grease/water/gear oil behind the seal retainers. Time for this job to be done I think!

Pull out your slide hammer now, or drive the inner seal retainers out with a 6' pipe or rod from the other side. My slide hammer came with a couple of attachments including the 2 jaw puller. The puller jaws sucked majorly but the mount was wide enough to get behind the retained but now too big...

Yummy! Clean it all up at this point or move on to the next step and clean later.

At this point I pull the axle out, there is nothing holding it in since the spindle is gone. Check out the rust on mine from the water in the oil. This has since been cleaned off of course.

When top and bottom bushings are removed and the knuckle is just hanging there, pick up the knuckle as far as it will go and slide the top off over the top kingpin and remove the knuckle. Now look at the mess you get to clean up!

Remove the rest of the bolts holding the kingpin bushings in place. On the passangers side there is a bushing on top and bottom and seperate plates over them with the zerk grease fittings. The Drivers side has the bushing and plate on the bottom, but bushing and steering arm instead of the plate...

Here's where you see the mess that's ahead of you! Give the spindle a few light tap's to break the seal lose from the knuckle and put it off and let the end of the axle down to rest on the knuckle. Now is a good time to remove the outer ring clamp on the knuckle boot. Taking it off is the easy...

Now we'll take a break and stand back and check everything out. Here's a shot of my generator/compressor setup in the back by the work pad where I'm working. And another shot of the Christmas Deuce that needs to get rolling ASAP to light up the town. Used blue masking tape to attach lights.

Now I decided to remove the tie-rod from the steering knuckle. I crossed my fingers that the socket wouldn't split and blipped the nut with the big impact and it came right off. There is a cotter pin you have to remove first of course. Then get your biggest hammer and bang that sucker out. I...