Phil,
Your friendly SMOG editor here, and yes, I
recently have seen the adjusting screw in question, but
since it appears that my postings to this frigging
british cars mailing list always end up somewhere
between the list and bounced mail limbo, I'll have to
count on you to forward my reply if it's worthy.
I just rebuilt the brakes on my Sprite, and in
order to remove the adjusters completely you must take
both the drums and the shoes off, as the adjusters come
out through the front of the backing plates (wheel
side). The reason these won't pass through the back
side is that the hole in the piece of metal that goes
across the adjusting side of the adjusting stud is
slightly smaller in dia. that the threaded part of the
adjusting stud. To me this would be because with the
constant pressure of the shoes acting on the stud, the
tendency could be for the stud to back itself out if
it weren't for something (ie. the strap), to keep it
from doing so.
That's it, and if you have any hints on how to get
my postings to post instead of bounce, I'd certainly
appreciate it.
cheers-
Daren Stone
dstone@sc9.intel.com
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