One of today's jobs was to fit new brake shoes and handbrake cables.
The brake drums (o/s in particular) were a pig to remove, so I have now ground off the lip which was stopping them from sliding off.
Everything is now assembled and working, but there is extra movement in the brake pedal and too much travel on the handbrake. I ran out of time to improve this today.
The brake adjusters appear to be OK. I can see that rotating the ratchet part lengthens the adjuster, but what I don't understand is what pushes the adjuster to turn the ratchet part in everyday use. I wound the threaded part in to almost the minimum length before fitting the shoes and drums.
I assume that the adjuster works very slowly, and that I should have rotated its body, to lengthen it until the drum would only just slide on ?
Am I correct that I just need to remove the drums, lengthen the adjusters by hand so that the drums only just slide on, then adjust the handbrake using the plastic nut ?
The brake drums (o/s in particular) were a pig to remove, so I have now ground off the lip which was stopping them from sliding off.
Everything is now assembled and working, but there is extra movement in the brake pedal and too much travel on the handbrake. I ran out of time to improve this today.
The brake adjusters appear to be OK. I can see that rotating the ratchet part lengthens the adjuster, but what I don't understand is what pushes the adjuster to turn the ratchet part in everyday use. I wound the threaded part in to almost the minimum length before fitting the shoes and drums.
I assume that the adjuster works very slowly, and that I should have rotated its body, to lengthen it until the drum would only just slide on ?
Am I correct that I just need to remove the drums, lengthen the adjusters by hand so that the drums only just slide on, then adjust the handbrake using the plastic nut ?