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01-05-2011
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| Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Rossendale
Posts: 465 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0   | rear brake adjusters how do these work then? just turn them then hammer drum on? hand brake non existent got full travel.as shoes have life in them should i try to get function back or (as i got new shoes&cable) bin the ones on the car??
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01-05-2011
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Posts: 465 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 | ns shoes 5mm os shoes 7mm that bargain angle grinder turns out its 110v oh flippin heck i had a lip on ns drum but none on os lip removed think ill just replace cable and swop shoes/sides so they same on both sides and see how i go as im on my own on this
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01-05-2011
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| Autotest Special  Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Lake District....Moist
Posts: 23,469 Thanks: 1148 Blog Entries: 3 Trader Rating: 1  | Remove wear ridge if not already done. use lever to adjust shoes to 'just fit' inside drum. Assuming actuators are new/perfect, the robert is your mother's brother. Cheers D
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01-05-2011
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Posts: 465 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 | wear ridge removed (on the one side that had it) D cant see visible wear on actuators going to put new shoes in now
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01-05-2011
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Posts: 465 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 | ns rear shoe seized freed it off then did lever thing now it seems i have functioning handbrake just gonna re adjust shoes then take it out for test run
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01-05-2011
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Posts: 465 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 | on axle stands just managed to get 3 clicks so re assemble off stands and 5 clicks and not much good now
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01-05-2011
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Posts: 465 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 | story so far handbrake cable..... decided to replace it so round to mates with ramps pulled old one out just before i was going back under car thought id measure the two together AND guess what both identical in length!!!!
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03-05-2011
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Posts: 465 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 | new brake shoes fitted "lever out etc" springs pull em back in dodgy wheel cyl os rear
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28-05-2015
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Posts: 11 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 | Can't remember where I heard it but stick it into reverse, get up some speed then slam on the anchors. This seems to throw out the shoes in some way. My Cinque failed the MOT on a poor hand brake last year. Garage did as above, passed MOT.
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