Goodyear Brake Pucks - Cheap!

On 13 Jul 2004 05:12:11 GMT, (COUGARNFW) wrote:

Ron...

The wheels, of course, are not brakes, and I have no info on them.

What, specifically, did you need?

Thanks, Neal. Cy Galley sent me the exploded diagram from an old ACS
catalog, and that's really all I needed. Didn't really have a specific
question; just wanted a diagram showing the parts and their relationships
in case I ever *did* have to dissect a brake. It did answer one question I
had-- whether the "thick" Goodyear puck was for yet another model of brake
or was used on the piston side of mine (the latter).

Goodyear apparently made quite a variety of wheel/brake types. A few years
back, I picked up a used tire and Goodyear wheel & brake assembly at a
local fly-in for $5. Thought I'd be able to use it for spare parts...but
it had the round pucks, rather than the kidney-shaped ones mine use.

A month ago, a guy across the hangar row with a Luscombe said he needed a
particular ring for his Goodyear wheels. He had the round-puck type, so I
handed him my old wheel and said "Help yourself." He disassembled it, but
found it didn't match his, either.

Back in December 2002, when I had the brake pad munched, I ran the trapline
looking for replacement pads. I was eventually referred to a guy on the
east coast (believe it was one of the Carolinas) that was supposedly one of
the experts on Goodyear wheel/brakes. He's the guy who told me I had the
"last model" type of Goodyears...the last version of the system before they
stopped making them. Don't know if it's true or not, but they are
apparently less trouble-prone that the run-of-the-mill model.

Ron Wanttaja

Ron...

Not knowing you had enough data, I kept looking for the wheel to match and did
tonight in an old catalog.

I found the three clip arrangement more promising than the smaller clips.

None of us have ever seen your model or the model they made for the 150s, also
"geared" type.

Neal