GavinN
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Hi all.
Hope you can help. My handbrake cable snapped a month ago so i gave it to my friend to fix. He ordered a handbrake cable and when fitting he found it was too long.
He also metioned I should replace the rear shoes. No problem but since then the brakes feel dodgy and the handbrake cable, now shortened is V stiff. We opened and inspected the drums and found there are 2 springs inside keeping the shoes A)in place and B)off the drums. Now the 2 spings are different. One is small and weak, the other is strong. They can either be at the top or bottom, there is no indication which way they should be and we may think he put them in the wrong place as the top one (the strong spring in my case) pulls the shoes off the drums and I think it my be pulling them too far off, this would also explain the stiff handbrake.
I'm not asking anyone to dissassemble their drums but someone by now must have done and remembered the setup or if you own a Haines manual?
If this is the correct setup can anyone suggest a fix. They have recently been bled by a local garage and the system has not been opened at all so it must be a problem with the rear drum/shoe setup.
Cheers if you can help.
GavN
E-Mail [email protected]
GavN
Hope you can help. My handbrake cable snapped a month ago so i gave it to my friend to fix. He ordered a handbrake cable and when fitting he found it was too long.
He also metioned I should replace the rear shoes. No problem but since then the brakes feel dodgy and the handbrake cable, now shortened is V stiff. We opened and inspected the drums and found there are 2 springs inside keeping the shoes A)in place and B)off the drums. Now the 2 spings are different. One is small and weak, the other is strong. They can either be at the top or bottom, there is no indication which way they should be and we may think he put them in the wrong place as the top one (the strong spring in my case) pulls the shoes off the drums and I think it my be pulling them too far off, this would also explain the stiff handbrake.
I'm not asking anyone to dissassemble their drums but someone by now must have done and remembered the setup or if you own a Haines manual?
If this is the correct setup can anyone suggest a fix. They have recently been bled by a local garage and the system has not been opened at all so it must be a problem with the rear drum/shoe setup.
Cheers if you can help.
GavN
E-Mail [email protected]
GavN