[Healeys] Fw: 100 front brakes

[Peter & Veronica]

Resent - forgot to edit!

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From: "Peter & Veronica" <greylinn at ozemail.com.au>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 6:01 PM
To: "Tadeusz Malkiewicz" <tadeusz.malkiewicz at plusnet.pl>; 
<healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] 100 front brakes

> G'day Tadek
>
> I had a similar problem with replacement shoes on one of my Landrovers. 
> There seem to be several similar but not quite identical shoe cores. I got 
> round it by extending the pegs with a short length of  tight-fitting pipe. 
> In this case, this also helped adjustment as otherwise the snail cam 
> adjusters were able to go right round.
>
> I can tell you from bitter experience that getting the shoes adjusted as 
> close as possible to the drums is vital to getting a good pedal. A very 
> small amount of extra clearance at the shoe/drum interface makes a 
> proportionately much larger difference at the pedal (my own BN1 and a 
> friend's have given us many hours of frustration because of this) Also 
> make sure that the pedal can return fully (is the diamond-shaped 
> indentation in the footwell there?) This also makes an awful lot of 
> difference.
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter
> Brisbane Oz
>
> BN1 Ward Spl coupe
> BN1 Holden V6