One more thing on brakes...
True roadster rear cores are very rare these days. Most rear shoes are 510
style with the holes for locating pins and a emergency brake lever cutout
in each shoe.
This makes it difficult to set the shoes properly on the backing plate.
So if you're staring at your shoes wondering just how it all went back on,
here goes:
Find a shoe with the gap in the material on the same end as the emergency
lever slot and place it on the lever and the piston side of the rear
cylinder. Then, find a shoe with the gap at the top (adjuster end) and
place it on the opposing side (keeping the emergency brake lever slots at
the bottom on either side of the rear cylinder).
You want to alternate the gaps in the two shoes, but the piston side (and
emergency brake lever side) is the one that gets "the gap".
Because most shoes these days look identical it can be confusing, but the
above is how it was originally set up (and the pictures in the manuals
don't help 'cause they show gaps at each end).
Hope that helps.....
Bill Wessel
Madison, WI
'68 1600, '69 2000,
and GP race roadsters
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