Hello,
I now have the rear of my car on jack stands and I am about to bleed the
brakes. However, I am a little curious about the adjustment on the rear
brakes. The book (again) is not clear on this, thus neither am I.
First, why did they put a SQUARE had on the adjustment bolt... geez <g>
Second, when a spin a rear wheel (either wheel) it will make it about 1/4
away around before stopping. I can feel the brakes barely catching and I
can hear them as well (more in certain parts of the rotation). This is
before adjusting. Naturally, if I tighten the bolt the wheel is locked...
however, how far should I _loosen_ the adjustment bolt?? Should the wheel
be able to spin freely until friction makes it stop or should the brakes
always be putting on a tidbit of pressure? It doesn't take much to loosen
the bolt enough to let the wheel spin freely, but I am not sure if it
should. I would have assumed I would be tightening the bolt, not lossining
(i.e. that the brakes would have worn down needing to be 'pulled in').
Also, in case this matters, when I loosen the bolt... the wheel will spin
freely, if I loosen it a tad more, the brakes start to catch, a little more
and they are free again, a little more and the brakes barely catch, a little
more freely and and little more they catch again???? Weird...
Maybe I am going about this all wrong... maybe I should tighten everything
up and leave the wheels locked and not take my live into my own hands <g>
Anyway... bleeding the brakes looks simple enough now that I bought a nice
little 'one man bleeding kit'. I am not going to replace the hoses this
time around. I know they were replaced about 5 years ago the car has had
very few miles in that time. I think it would be best if I practised just
bleeding the brakes before taking parts off the car :-) Besides, I am still
waiting for my MOSS catalog to arrive...
After the bleeding I will see about that annoying brake light switch... and
I will leave the wheels spinning freely unless I am warned otherwise.
Thanks for any help...
Ross (66 MGB)
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