[Bricklin] rear brake issue

Scott Isensee isensee at aol.com
Mon May 21 17:52:55 MDT 2018


Have you bled the brakes to make sure there isnbt a little bit of air in the
system?

Scott

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> On May 21, 2018, at 1:35 PM, John T. Blair <jblair1948 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> At 01:49 PM 5/21/2018, greg monfort wrote:
>
>> Greets!
>> ??? I don't follow; I mean the brake adjuster should be doing this,
> so no need
>> to adjust brakes very accurately, just backup/stop a few times to let them
do
>> it and just in case, do it on the way to the checkpoint.
>
> Greg,
>
> You are correct, the adjusters SHOULD be doing it.  But I've had to
> manually adjust the brakes on many of my cars with the auto adjusters.
>
> But other than the shoes not being adjusted correctly, I don't know
> why one side
> of the rear brakes would brake more than the other unless there's a
> crimp in the
> brake line and the fluid can't flow equally on both sides.
>
> John
>
>
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