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Zermatt924SUK · Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Posts: 43 Location: UK

I'm having trouble get my Hands in to tighten the handbrake.( Assuming that it's tightened via the nuts a the back of the Brake?)....Anyone have an easy way?

cgalyon · Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 249 Location: Knoxville, TN

Good question, I'd like to know this too as my handbrake does almost nothing now. Any diagrams/pictures in locating what needs to be tightened would be helpful as well!
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Zermatt924SUK · Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Posts: 43 Location: UK

I feel like Taking the seat out....But surely this is not the only way!

Smoothie · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:00 am Post subject:

Yeah, unless you have the patience to get only a slight movement of the adjuster with each turn, you're better off removing the seat (with a 1/4" drive socket wrench or else that'll get tedious too).

Whatever you do, do do the drum brake adjustment at the rear wheels first. Sometimes with that done, you'll find the lever doesn't need adjusting - plus it's just the correct way...
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bcblase · Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Posts: 574 Location: Winchester, VA

Here's the dumb little gear that you have to turn to tighten the pads at the rear drums. It took me forever to figure out where the thing was. Only realized what needed to turn after I took the whole brake assembly apart!

Push/rotate the gear cogs up or down to adjust the brake pads.

BC
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Rasta Monsta · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 11733 Location: PacNW

BC, nice photo, you are rivaling Smoothie in documenting Minutia Toofahdae.
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Zermatt924SUK · Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Posts: 43 Location: UK

Thanks for the replies...and the Photo!

ideola · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 15550 Location: Spring Lake MI

Just to clarify one thing on the adjustment...

The gear mechanism is essentially reversible...I'm not sure if there is a "correct" way to install it, but be aware that during previous disassembly of the brake mechanism, it's possible that the one or both gear mechanisms was installed "backward". It will fit just fine either way, so as far as I can tell, there's no adverse effect on the functioning of the handbrake shoes that sit inside the rear hats on the disc.

The challenge is, there's no easy way to tell which way it's installed without disassembling everything. As a result, you can have one side that requires you turn the gear UP in order to spread the adjusters, and it can be exactly opposite on the other side. When I reassembled mine, I oriented the adjuster on both sides so that moving the gear UP causes the shoes to expand outward and therefore tighten, while moving the gear DOWN cause the shoes to contract inward and therefore loosen.
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Rich H · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:58 am Post subject:

My adjusters were idential so one has to go up and one to go down. You will work it out by trial and error, but it takes ages to adjust if it hasn't been done for ages as you only get 1/8 th of a turn each time

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