Freeze & Release

Recently, while replacing the rear brake shoes on a friend’s 1994 Ford F-350 pick-up truck, I found myself needing to remove the bleeder screws from the wheel cylinders. As I looked behind the brake drums, I could barely see the bleeders due to all of the rust and corrosion. My past experience told me to prepare to change out the whole wheel cylinder, because the bleeder was more than likely going to break off when I tried to remove them. I wire brushed off the loose dirt and rust, sprayed them each with a ten second blasts of Loctite Freeze and Release, waited a couple of minutes and then repeated this application a second time. I then turned them right out like they had been removed the day before.

-Loren A. Nauss (shade-tree mechanic/Loctite employee)