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Old Yesterday, 06:07 PM   #1
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Continuing rear brake woes

Okay… I’m including a picture showing the “nail” for the spring that holds the rear shoe on…as you can see, it’s not coming straight through the shoe and won’t straighten up once the S-A arm is put on it cuz the e-brake piece is not allowing it to happen…what am I doing wrong? I’ve been fighting with it for several hours - taking everything off and putting it back together.
Also, what length should the nail be?
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Old Yesterday, 07:20 PM   #2
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Re: Continuing rear brake woes

To state the obvious...something ain't lining up!

Here's a link to a really good, step-by-step process with pictures on how to assemble drum brake assemblies. You might find that your method is somehow misaligning things?

Anyhow, here ya go:

https://www.pbase.com/nufsed/drumbrake
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Re: Continuing rear brake woes

We fought with ours last week.

Park brake cable seized and created a ton of headaches
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Re: Continuing rear brake woes

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To state the obvious...something ain't lining up!

Here's a link to a really good, step-by-step process with pictures on how to assemble drum brake assemblies. You might find that your method is somehow misaligning things?

Anyhow, here ya go:

https://www.pbase.com/nufsed/drumbrake
Thanks. That’s what I’ve been using…I’m screwing something up - I don’t know what yet…
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Re: Continuing rear brake woes

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We fought with ours last week.

Park brake cable seized and created a ton of headaches
I’ll check that out. Thanks!
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Old Yesterday, 08:48 PM   #6
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Re: Continuing rear brake woes

It would be helpful you you could send a picture of the whole setup so we can see how everything is lining up.

Sometimes it seems like quite a bit of juggling to get everything lined up right...
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Old Yesterday, 09:52 PM   #7
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Re: Continuing rear brake woes

I’ll send a pic later this evening!
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