It is my understanding from the last few posts that one of the brake shoes
is mounted upside down???
Please someone clarify, symetrical/asymetrical, upside down or not.
Patrick Bowen
-----Original Message-----
From: Dean Dashwood [mailto:ddashwoo@ect.enron.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 12:28 PM
To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Brakes
I recently replaced by shoes+drums, and had absolutely no problems fitting
the
drums back on.
I made a drawing of the location of everything before I started. One of the
shoes is upside-down, and I believe the return springs go through different
holes in each of the two shoes.
Don't know if anyone remembers that I was asking about clutch problems a
while
ago. Well, I decided to take it into the garage and let someone who knows
what
they're doing have a look at it, so I won't have the car until the end of
the
week now, and the brake drawing is in the car. (If anyone's interested, the
clutch problems turned out to be a completely shot slave cylinder, poor
seals in
the master cylinder, and an oval-shaped clevis-pin-hole in the pedal.)
But if anyone thinks it will help, e-mail me and I'll try to do an ASCII-art
reproduction of my drawing once I get it back.
Dean
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Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 08:30:34 -0800
From: "John Weber" <weberjm@teleport.com>
Subject: Re: Brakes
Helllo,
Just rebuilt my left rear.
Did the brakes at the same time.
I noticed that the Haynes manual had a picture of them with the drum removed
and that there was a blurb in the text about the installation of the shoes
NOT being symetrical (sp?).
On disassembly, I noted that the shoes were identical, and that the PO had
installed them symmetrically(sp?).
I reinstalled the entire thing IAW Haynes, and the drum goes on nicely
(although tight, adjuster full out). The only difference I could discern on
the picture was that the trailing shoe was upside down (?) from the leading
shoe.
This may affect you as well.
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