460 brakes

I"m looking at a "58 460 row crop. Machine is in pretty good overall shape except brakes, right non existent, left marginal. I"ve never worked on anything bigger than an H and these look different. Seem to be adjusted all the way out. Anyone familiar with them? Any ideas on difficulty, parts availability-price? I assume they"ll need to be completely redone. Thanks & happy new year!

Should be an easy job. I just re-did the ones ones on my 460. Very straight forward. You just need the four new disc's brake pads and start. You make need to clean the steel disc themselves. They may be pitted or rusted.

Good-pads available at Case-IH dealer? or did you find at internet dealer? price? Thank you.

You can get the pads at your local IHC dealer, but they are twice the price of the ones on this site. But then there is shipping cost as well, which you need to add. You can also check ebay. I picked mine up at a local tractor/ parts dealer (it was not an IHC dealership). Cost was about $18 or 19 each).

I have those brake disc new aftermarket. Email me if your interested.

Thanks John.

Depending how bad they are you may have to machine (or have them machined) the sucrfaces, of the housings and the exapneders. The best way to do this is in a lathe. You should also take the expanders apart by popping the springs off and make sure the balls and grooves are clean. If not just use a 3/4" or 1" wire brush in a drill and clean them up.

If the balls are badly worn you can get them from CaseIH along with springs if needed. The brake pads can be bought from numerous places, CaseIH is the best cause they sell ones that wont lock up.

Hope this help you
-Jordan

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Same setup as my 2606. A straight edge along the rotor surface and mounting holes on the rear end showed them as perfectly flush.

I cleaned up ball and groove area and put a little antiseize on the balls/grooves to lube them. There may be something better as long as it doesn't run onto the pads. I didn't bother with cleaning the pits on the actuator/expander as I would let the brake action clean them up instead. This isn't quite like stopping a car. I don't road mine, just slow speed stuff moving bales and dirt work and setting the brake.

I see you machined your housing, JJ. I laid the disks and actuator in the housing and laid a straight edge on the housing and used feeler guages underneath. Ended up leaving a few thousandts space and took off about 10 to 12 thousands. The machine shop I used didn't want to try to chuck it up in a lathe with those bolt hole extension in the housing and he used some type of surface grinder. Charged me $45 for one.

Thanks to all-I'm going to pick up the tractor tomorow, hopefully have brakes apart Sunday. Jordan-did you take your machine apart just to get me pictures? Again thanks for the help, I'm sure I'll have more questions on this one before I'm done!

Hey Stevo, those are few of hundreds of photos I took rebuilding my 560 Standard last year. So depending waht else you work on odds are I'll have pics if you need them. lol

Ya, it took me some tinkering housings fit on the chuck of the lathe. Hard part was setting the cutting edge so it wouldnt hit outer extensons of the bolt holes like you mentioned, but after a couple tries and couple passes on each they were good as new. Really hard part was getting the one pair of expanders balanced in the chuck, but got it evetually.

I cleaned mine up the pits cause they were badly rusted, so bad the left brake didnt work at all.

-Jordan