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[absx2]

The hand brake levers where they engage on the shoes can wear too....back in the day I was "tight" so built them up with weld

Me too :) Made a big difference but these days it`s just a case of buying these http://www.minispare...|Back to search

They are also longer than early levers so it`s a big improvement if you have the shorter ones.

[Tornado99]

 

The hand brake levers where they engage on the shoes can wear too....back in the day I was "tight" so built them up with weld

Me too :) Made a big difference but these days it`s just a case of buying these http://www.minispare...|Back to search

They are also longer than early levers so it`s a big improvement if you have the shorter ones.

 

Will be checking these for signs of wear. Car was restored by some previous owner but I am finding a few signs of re-using older components here and there. 

[Tornado99]

Made another adjustment to rears lastnight. After setting the hub adjusters, I checked the quadrants and all look to move easily. The cables look in very good condition, not rusted or worn. At the handbrake adjuster, I noticed the clevis pin looked bent. Closer exam show it as find but the clevis fork itself was sitting askew, off centerline. Seems whomever last put it together placed the fork on only one side of the two halves of the lever perch. This made the fork able to slide over to one side some, making it unsquare to the lever and give up some levering distance. I took cable off the fork and placed fork ends on outside of both sides of lever perch. This squared it all up again but I'm still needing to thread the adjuster nut all the way to limit of cable threaded section to achieve a three click brake hold.
I suspect it might be worn shoe actuator levers at the drums as mention previously.

Will be checking those once my parts arrive and I have drums off for new springs. Unfortunately I do not have new actuators in this order.

[cal844]

Handbrake cable sounds worn if you are running out of adjustment

[Tornado99]

Just talked to my parts supplier and he hasn't sent out my order just yet. Will see if he has the actuators to include. He also mentioned my issue may be the drums are worn thin making proper adjustment problematic.

[Cooperman]

Very unlikely to be worn drums. The rears do so little work that they don't wear.

[Spider]

I'm wondering here if there's some drag in the rear brakes causing them to prematurely need adjusting ?

If the flex hoses are old, it could be them or the Valve (which ever type you have) needing an overhaul.

 

Also, if the drums are glazed, the brakes don't wear so it shouldn't need adjusting.