Removal front brakes and hub

Continuing to tear down the scoot, evaluate what I have on my hands and clean things up for an eventual rebuild.  Made a fair amount of progress on some small projects this week so I will make a couple of posts to bring things up to date.

Here we have a few photos of the front hub and brakes as they came off of the fork.  The hub spins freely and feels smooth.  I will pull it apart soon to get a look at the internals but I am hoping it will be mostly in very solid condition.  Some rust removal to take place here to bring the paint back to the forefront.

The hub itself is good.  Again some rust removal to take place.

And here is a picture of the original brake shoes with the original Piaggio logo.  These were very cool to see but sadly are beyond repair and service so they will not be going back on in the rebuild.  This kind of brake set-up has one pivot pin and both shoes fit over the one pin rather than the more common two pin set up where each shoe has its own pin.  Removal was a bit tricky not to mention that they were pretty stuck on the pivot pin with corrosion.