[Healeys] Rear brake adjustment

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Handbrake adjustment is a totally different item. Stretched cable or
wrong cable? max adjustment on threaded rod? Adjustment procedure in
book.
Did you grease the adjuster and oil the felts on the steady posts?
Both springs are the same or the one closest to the adjuster could be
shorter (sometimes) and they rub on the shoes-that's ok. Hank

	-----------------------------------------From: "Roger Grace via
Healeys" 
To: "Healeys"
Cc: 
Sent: Monday March 29 2021 3:12:56PM
Subject: [Healeys] Rear brake adjustment

  BJ8 ph2. I am Struggling to get consistent results for rear brake
shoe adjustment. All part of a project to get handbrake working
properly - currently it is almost vertical.
 Background:
 New shoes, slaves and springs etc with less than 4k mi. Almost no
sign of any wear yet.
 Handbrake lever clevis pins removed. Steady post adjusted so the peg
just touches when brakes are adjusted tight. Then the adjustment set
so you can just hear/feel slight brake drag. All OK so far. 
 Here is the problem:
 When the handbrake lever is pushed with screwdriver or my hand it
moves with initial free play then clamps the shoes as it should.
However when released brakes do not fully retract, and shoes bind and
not at the same setting that started off with. Same story with using
the hydraulics; seems to hang up, in not quite the off position. Both
wheels are the same.
 Shoes can be "reset" to original setting by rattling the adjuster
back and forth in the freeplay zone. All looks fine when drum is off
and you can see the shoe operation.

 My thoughts :
 I observe that the new springs actually touch the inside of the shoes
? Maybe some grease there ? Is this interference normal ? Is it
possible to incorrectly assemble the shoes/springs ? See photo of RR.
 I note that the slave is tight on the back plate. How tight is normal
floating ? Maybe I assembled the slave cylinder clips incorrectly ?

 All suggestions appreciated
 rg


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