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1. Frozen rear brake adjusters.... (score: 1): Author: What was the purpose of tetherball? <metzger@decwet.enet.dec.com>; Date: Wed, 13 Feb 91 13:51:26 PST; My '70 Midget has severly frozen rear brake adjusters. I've tried Liquid Wrench, a torch and vice grips on the adjuster to no avail. Before I turn the square adjuster into a round one I thought I'd a; /html/british-cars/1991-02/msg00169.html (8,673 bytes)
2. Re: Frozen rear brake adjusters.... (score: 1): Author: andyh@hcxio.hdw.csd.harris.com (Andy Haber); Date: Wed, 13 Feb 91 17:42:10 EST; My '69 MGB has very similar adjusters on it so I do have a suggestion (see below). I too wanted to avoid breaking or striping the adjuster, so what I did was to take everything apart first. I found; /html/british-cars/1991-02/msg00179.html (9,046 bytes)
3. Re: Frozen rear brake adjusters.... (score: 1): Author: garnett@theory.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Roger Garnett); Date: Thu, 14 Feb 1991 08:38:33 EST; BMC brake adjusters work real when they are clean, but you can really mess them up good if they are frozen. They consist of a screw with a 1/4" square end on the outside, and a cone on the other, whi; /html/british-cars/1991-02/msg00193.html (9,502 bytes)
4. re: Frozen rear brake adjusters.... (score: 1): Author: taichi!whs70@bellcore.bellcore.com (W. H. Sohl); Date: 14 Feb 1991 8:55 EST; John Metzger asked: No need to go to the trouble of squaring off the inside of a nut. If the adjuster is like most british-car adjusters, it is a square 1/4 inch in shape. Go to your toolbox and loca; /html/british-cars/1991-02/msg00196.html (9,426 bytes)
5. Re: Frozen rear brake adjusters.... (score: 1): Author: banta@Eng.Sun.COM; Date: Thu, 14 Feb 91 10:07:39 EST; The adjusters cost about $5 each and would take all of an hour for a rank novice to replace both of them. The headache factor is also eliminated. andy; /html/british-cars/1991-02/msg00198.html (7,446 bytes)
6. Re: Frozen rear brake adjusters.... (score: 1): Author: gerry@speedy.att.com; Date: Thu, 14 Feb 91 09:59 EST; ..... This must be more common to Midgets than I thought. I had the same problem on mine a couple of years ago when the brakes adjusters were totally seized in the backing plate. No amount of Liquid; /html/british-cars/1991-02/msg00199.html (9,130 bytes)
7. Re: Frozen rear brake adjusters.... (score: 1): Author: pwcs!phile@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Philip J Ethier); Date: Thu, 14 Feb 91 10:34:31 CST; Actually, Roger, the assembly is welded together on the Midget (at least on all the backing plates I have seen). You can get the little rectangular pistons out OK, but the screw itself is in for the; /html/british-cars/1991-02/msg00202.html (8,356 bytes)
8. Re: Frozen rear brake adjusters.... (score: 1): Author: dstone@sc9.intel.com (D. STONE 5-9521, BPR: 237-2322"); Date: Thu, 14 Feb 91 09:17:47 PST; Having just rebuilt the brakes on my Sprite I'll concede to all this sage advice that's been going on regarding rear brake adjusters, with one addition: Once you do get them unstuck, you still must r; /html/british-cars/1991-02/msg00204.html (8,017 bytes)
9. Re: Frozen rear brake adjusters.... (score: 1): Author: Scott Turner <srt@CS.UCLA.EDU>; Date: Mon, 18 Feb 91 12:24:47 PST; Speaking of which, has anyone ever been able to find a proper tool for that weird 1/4 inch square bolt? -- Scott Turner; /html/british-cars/1991-02/msg00255.html (7,530 bytes)
10. Re: Frozen rear brake adjusters.... (score: 1): Author: Bret.Musser@F.GP.CS.CMU.EDU; Date: Mon, 18 Feb 91 15:39:46 EST; Snap-On makes a 1/4 inch square socket. It takes a little digging through the catalog to find it, however. Costs around $18 for a 1/4" or 3/8" drive (one or the other, I forget which). Bret Musser bj; /html/british-cars/1991-02/msg00256.html (7,626 bytes)

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