Hey Guys,
Go Droner's
A New England Drone member with the initials of CB nailed the problem.
When you adjust the parking brake if you get it even a bit too tight it
starts to pull the brake shoes away from the rear cylinder pistons even
though it may not create enough friction between the shoes and the drum to
notice.
When this happens and you step on the brake pedal the rear cylinder pistons
have to travel a distance before engaging the brake shoe. This causes a
spongy brake pedal.
What I did to fix this was to pull the pins from the rear brake levers and
re-adjust the parking / emg brake until you could just drop in the pins with
no pulling on the parking brake levers. This gives the best parking / emg
brake possible with no effects on the normal operation of the rear brakes.
With a single cylinder braking system "the best possible" is a good thing.
Still a great parking brake action with excellent stiff pedal braking power
all around for the first time in 27 years. No not mis-adjusted for 27
years just was in storage.
Best Regards
& Thanks to Charlie B.
Rick G
66' 1600 with awesome brakes after 27 years of no brakes.
----- Original Message -----
From: "garretson2" <garretson2@cox.net>
To: "Bill Schairer" <wschaibe@ucsd.edu>; "Mike Harper"
<roadsterdude1600@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Datsun Roadster List" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: Bleeding Brakes after complete overhaul
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