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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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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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Yesterday, 08:16 PM | #3 |
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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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Yesterday, 08:28 PM | #4 | |
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Re: Continuing rear brake woes
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Yesterday, 08:30 PM | #5 |
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Re: Continuing rear brake woes
I’ll check that out. Thanks!
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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... |
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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Today, 11:03 AM | #8 |
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Re: Continuing rear brake woes
Are you sure you have the shoes in the correct place-not the front on the back and vice versa?
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