Project Giulia

My nice Giula from 1962 has been in storage since our departure to Sweden in 2002. So that is about 5 years. The white beauty has clearly been suffering of this long inactivity. Dry rubbers, some new minor under body corrosion and fully locked brakes.
Even though this is a 105 series Giulia, the first production year year has 101 Giulia Sprint brakes: drums front with three shoes and drums rear with two shoes.
The finned front drums are really a fine piece of aluminium machining with a steel liner on which the shoes rub off the speed of the car.
Each shoe has its own cilinder, which are all fully stuck.

After removing the drums (te rear one was so stuck, that it involved gigantic pullers) we found also the rear cilinders to be fully corroded.
As these are brakes and I did not trust the bore surface of the existing cilinders I decided to invest in new cilinders all round.

Ordered these at Alfa Stop (Tony Stevens). Certainly not cheap but specially made for this car.

Worked a week later on the brakes again and also found the brake linings that feed the front wheel cilinders to be dodgy. Also ordered new linings for those at AlfaStop.
Really encouraging that these parts are still available, as it keeps the cars original!

Now we have to wait for that order to arrive.
can't wait to get her on the road for a drive, but it will be some time....