# Organic brake material problem.

**URL:** https://59plymouth.net/t/organic-brake-material-problem/3842
**Category:** Much Ado About Nothing
**Created:** [May 20, 2023, 1:15am UTC](https://59plymouth.net/t/organic-brake-material-problem/3842 "2023-05-20T01:15:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![RICKYMOPAR](https://59plymouth.net/user_avatar/59plymouth.net/rickymopar/32/35_2.png) [@RICKYMOPAR](https://59plymouth.net/u/RICKYMOPAR)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2023, 1:15am UTC](https://59plymouth.net/t/organic-brake-material-problem/3842/1 "2023-05-20T01:15:25Z")

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![IMG_8448.jpg](https://59plymouth.net/uploads/default/original/3X/0/0/00d4170cd1c7e4187f932023249074c2670283bd.jpeg)

**Just ran across a problem I hadn’t seen in years. The organic lining on the emergency brake had swelled and basically fused to the drum, totally making the vehicle non moveable. Trying to tow the vehicle to a more accessible spot for loading, also plowing two really nice furrows. The emergency brake was not applied. Backing the adjuster off a few turns, and a few carefully targeted taps and we were free. Rick  
Post Script  
Now let’s talk Patina.**

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### Author: ![Faulkner](https://59plymouth.net/user_avatar/59plymouth.net/faulkner/32/21944_2.png) [@Faulkner](https://59plymouth.net/u/Faulkner)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2023, 2:07am UTC](https://59plymouth.net/t/organic-brake-material-problem/3842/2 "2023-05-20T02:07:00Z")

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Hey, I’ve got one of those adjusters, Rick. Now, where did I get it… Oh yeah, you gave it to me! 😃

More about the truck. Yours? John’s? What’s going to happen with it?

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### Author: ![RICKYMOPAR](https://59plymouth.net/user_avatar/59plymouth.net/rickymopar/32/35_2.png) [@RICKYMOPAR](https://59plymouth.net/u/RICKYMOPAR)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2023, 2:33am UTC](https://59plymouth.net/t/organic-brake-material-problem/3842/3 "2023-05-20T02:33:04Z")

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**Both trucks belong to a friend of mine. His son wants the cab over engine COE. We were preparing to tow on a trailer, to Tulsa Ok. The wrecker is a 1956 Dodge with a 259 CID V8 poly engine, the 1947 COE 265 L head 6. Some low rent trespassed and stole the gasoline from the wrecker. probably clogged their fuel injectors. The fuel was pretty old.  
Rick**

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### Author: ![RICKYMOPAR](https://59plymouth.net/user_avatar/59plymouth.net/rickymopar/32/35_2.png) [@RICKYMOPAR](https://59plymouth.net/u/RICKYMOPAR)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2023, 11:42am UTC](https://59plymouth.net/t/organic-brake-material-problem/3842/4 "2023-06-20T11:42:52Z")

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COE delivered to Tulsa, Ok. A little help from a WWII aircraft carrier tug. Check the hail storm patina adjustment on the trucks finish.

 ![IMG_8815.jpg](https://59plymouth.net/uploads/default/original/3X/f/c/fc75637d09f22f2569081dda6865880a48884e20.jpeg)  
 ![20230617_144040.jpg](https://59plymouth.net/uploads/default/original/3X/1/3/13418c0664adb137a19417dfd4f03e71f38198fc.jpeg)

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### Author: ![Faulkner](https://59plymouth.net/user_avatar/59plymouth.net/faulkner/32/21944_2.png) [@Faulkner](https://59plymouth.net/u/Faulkner)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://59plymouth.net/t/organic-brake-material-problem/3842/5 "2023-06-20T19:24:20Z")

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How cool is that, Rick!! Was the COE lying on its side, or was it a horizontal hailstorm?! 😆

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### Author: ![RICKYMOPAR](https://59plymouth.net/user_avatar/59plymouth.net/rickymopar/32/35_2.png) [@RICKYMOPAR](https://59plymouth.net/u/RICKYMOPAR)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2023, 10:11pm UTC](https://59plymouth.net/t/organic-brake-material-problem/3842/6 "2023-06-20T22:11:31Z")

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![IMG_8831.jpg](https://59plymouth.net/uploads/default/original/3X/0/6/0604db7157695a36ce9bc4c01cf3993c97ea2b84.jpeg)

The crosswind was from the North, wrong way, we were looking for tornados 🌪 after the hail stopped. On the way back a Tornado was also North of us in Sedgewick County. Kansas. ‘Wichita area’.