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are rear brake shoes self adjusting?

i.e. do they move out themselves or do you have to calibrate them whilst fitted?

thanks

sam

do you mean the piston which pushes out???

na mate, you know the shoes have to be near the drum so you get better braking

i put some shoes into my bros car today and a cylinder for it to clear MOT

not sure if theres enough braking efficiency at the rear drums as i didnt remember adjusting the shoes outwards, i was assumnig that they self adjust as you push the brake or is that bullshit?

thanks

sam

so with removing and replacing the cylinder did you bleed the brakes??

erm :oops: need to do that tomorrow lol

still confused as to whether i needed to adjust the shoes before mounting the drum, it had a tooth gear on the shoe and the housing it mounts on...

help me :( lol

anyone else ?

please

i havent done drum brakes since i had my ax about 5 year ago mate, i do have a haynes manual though ill have a look in there andlet you know

definately bleed the brakes though

thanks mate, help much appreciated...

its just well frustrating and i thought i'd done everything right but then realised that they might have needed adjusting

:y:sam

Nah theyre self adjusting. just pull the handbrake a few times then repeatedly pump the pedal to allow them to adjust.

though theres a manual adjuster down the bottom if braking is inadequate.

New shoes need manually adjusting when you first fit them , adjust them up as much as you can , WHILST leaving the drum free to spin . They can be little sods to adjust correctly and you may need to pull the drum off a couple of times .
Aid

how do i adjust them as there a bastard to move out

actually just looking at the haynes gabbs is right, just says to depress the pedal several times

you bled the system today??

thanks mate :y: very much appreciated, hope i can read it lol :)

sorry mate i edited the post

bleed the system, does the hand brake work ok??

yeah im about to bleed it now pred

i dont have no hose pipe though to cover it

im just thinkin the spongyness is cos i didnt adjust them to start off with

thanks

sam

and handbrake is tight and works :y:

yeah probablies down to the brakes not being bled mate

done all that today, pedal feels so much better now :y:

last problem is the handbrake, there no play in the handbrake lever at all

i think the shoes need to be adjusted, i.e. pushed out by remving the drum so there just about touching the inner drum when its put back on...

there is a gear mechanism of some sort inside but not too sure how to go about it...


thanks for help

sam

^^ you need to adjust the rear shoes so they are just very very slightly touching the drum mate. has the handbrake cable been adjusted in the past?