Drum brake spring position

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it occured to me this morning over a cup o tea that i may have installed the upper spring on my rear brakes wrong and that the wheel cylinder may need adjusting. this would cause the pumping of the brakes and not air in the system.

so:

1: does the wheel cylinder have an adjuster,where is it, and how do i adjust it?
2: where does the upper spring locate to?

at the moment the spring runs from shoe to shoe as i thought it needed this to return the pads back away from the drum. and i just shoved my wheel cylinders in without thinking

G

I guess all you bastards are out laning!

well i sorted it now. i had the shoes on wrong as the snail cam wasnt working. now the pedal works fine. but when i went to adjust the snail cam. i moved it too much and it got really tight and i snapped the stud off the brake show! so i wont get a test run until tomorrow night now

dont furget not to adjust the snail cam too much, Griff.

yer thanks for that you slow bastard now i gott wait till tomorrow to get a mate to give me another spare shoe, then tomorrow night BACK out in the dark

dont spose its much help to say yu cud use my garidge either?

so why arnt you out today MHM? good thing though, as i will prob come back in about 2hrs asking auto-leccy questions which you MUST answer!

G

i is having to WORK!!! (i know its unusual) to catch up on a big order. Sad individual that I am - i is on here fur some company

I even had to turn down doing a lane in my super new bobtailed disco

hahahahahahahaha well spending all wknd on my 90 feels like work too.

yup - theres only a very thin line between a hobby and a chore.

Int there a pic of it in my gallery bit?

An even if there int you should have done a search cos I posted on this a couple of years ago. Bloody newbies.

Ok so there int one in me gallery. Heres a pic of the shoes with springs attached as they would be if they were fitted to the backplate. The forward end of the Top spring is hoked onto the back plate. The bottom spring is attached to the shoes at both ends. An as Floppy sez the snail cam needs to be adjusted so the brakes are binding then backed off enough to stop them binding.

GRUNT said:

snail cam needs to be adjusted so the brakes are binding then backed off enough to stop them binding.

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then re-adjusted after they've bedded in.

GRUNT said:

Bloody newbies.

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sling yer hook you slow bastard! i figured it out in the end i was just a bit ham fisted and broke it. neverminf, my matey is bringing in another set of shoes for me tomorrow. hopefully my brakes will be fine by tomorrow night.

G

sling yer hook you slow bastard!

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I'll have you know young man that I've got betterer things to do with my Sundays than wetnurse young wet behind the ears wippersnappers wot dunt know nuffink about brakes.

i was just a bit ham fisted and broke it.

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Yer should ov used big hammer No 1 instead of big hammer No 2 then shunt yer

GRUNT said:

I'll have you know young man that I've got betterer things to do with my Sundays than wetnurse young wet behind the ears wippersnappers wot dunt know nuffink about brakes.

Yer should ov used big hammer No 1 instead of big hammer No 2 then shunt yer

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yes sir...

Thats more like it, now write out 500 times "I shall not use a big hammer when a two foot long tube will suffice".