Goodyear Brake Pucks - Cheap!

Ron...

I thought I could help you but when I read that hangar tale about "being told I
have the last issue by....nonsense, I gave up.

But the pictures, the pictures make all the difference.

You have what are known as gear tooth drive discs and matching wheels.

"Gear tooth drive discs are retained by cantilever clips which are a part of
the wheel.

While I take a look at more data, Goodyear wheel and brake became part of
Loral, and then Loral sold it to a company who intended to stay in the business
making the stuff. I have their name, too. But they could care less about you.
They decided on the big wheels are for making money and so stopped anything to
do with the little ones.

I met the lady sales manager several years at the mandated for mechs FAA
meeting where the vendors would put on slide shows and pay for the displays.
She said she would sell all the remaining pucks for our brakes (Cessna 140) at
a cut rate cost. The next meeting....I said what? No, and later the cost was
outrageous. She did impart some useful info. When forced to change from
asbestos based pucks, the next model pucks were terrible. The third generation
were good. Sigh.

I have an old Spruce catalog page which notes the Gear Tooth Drive Disc for the
Bellanca 260, Cessna 172, 175, 180, 182, 210 and Skylane.

The image is 1/6th of a page but all the part numbers are readable and the
parts are listed for the brakes.

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

What, specifically, did you need?

Any further answers will necessitate you telling me how to upload pix as you
did. You have my email address if that is easier.

Has this helped?

Neal

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