Hey all,

Replacing the rear shoes on my seicento tommorrow, and I need a bit of information. The new rear shoes have springs on them (where the holding pin should go into them), I need to know whether these springs should face outwards i.e away from the car (towards the wheel), or towards the car (away from the wheel). I would just compare them to the brake shoes on the car but my friend has already been round and stripped them off already

Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks
Dave

the hooks of the spring go into the hole from the side you are looking at, leaving the spring across the top and bottom of the hub

does that make sense, if not ill try and get a pick up 4 you

cheers

BB

the springs face outwards but i will warn you, they're a bitch to get back on!

Seconded on the "bitch to get back on" idea.

Id recommend a set of adjustable pliers, a big fat flat blade screwdriver, and some safety goggles

I'm not quite sure we're on about the same springs, these are the springs i mean:


are we on about the same thing?

dawozere said:

I'm not quite sure we're on about the same springs, these are the springs i mean:

are we on about the same thing?

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They should be facing into the car, on the back side so you can not see them.

hat bit slides over the location pin on the backplate, IIRC.

HTH

David

Nope. I dont think so.

IIRC, those springs should face inwards (At least mine did)

arseofbox said:

Nope. I dont think so.

IIRC, those springs should face inwards (At least mine did)

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That what i was getting at, or trying to

Cheers arse

David

peaster2k said:

That what i was getting at, or trying to

Cheers arse

David

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The boy knows. From the workshop manual....

Tosh

if only we all had 35mm sockets to get the hub off!lol

That pic above from the workshop manual shows an old hub too.
It has the crescents cut out of it to make fitting the new shoes easier. If your hubs have been replaced recently the cut-outs ain't there. On my 98 Sie only one side had the old style.
The new style doesn't have a full cut-out but are thinner where the crescents would normally go. Makes it a bit more of a biatch to fit new shoes.