[Spridgets] Rear brake Beehive spring / Steady spring
Ron Soave
soavero at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 22 10:07:11 MDT 2018
I don’t recall. Installing is facilitated by needlenose vise grips as a handle/plunger.
Ron Soave
> On Sep 22, 2018, at 9:00 AM, Lester via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> Good Morning all,
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> so I noticed that a rear tire was low. A few weeks later I went to fill it with air. It had come loose from the rim, and mud daubers (wasp here in the South) had built a nest between the tire and rim.
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> Off comes the rim, this reveals a streak of brake fluid down the tire and a puddle on the driveway. This caused me to remove the shoes but first, I had to remove that damned spring. When last I installed these, I stumbled on the fact that there is the easy way to install them and a hard way. The hard way takes 30 minutes and a lot of cursing an prying while the easy way takes seconds. does anyone remember my easy way? I sure don’t. I vaguely recall that if you just push the spring in oriented the correct way it snaps on to the fitting on the backing plate. But of course I don’t remember what that orientation is although it “looks like” the hook in the spring should be pointed outwards.
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> What say you all?
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> TIA,Lester
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