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Re: Brake bias

To: gt0003a@prism.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Brake bias
From: todd@nutria.nrlssc.navy.mil (Todd Mullins)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 11:15:46 -0500 (CDT)
Jurgen Hartwig writes:

> Well, I remember back when Denise Thorpe was still around.  She said that
> when you adjust your back brakes, you just turn them clockwise until you
> lock up the brakes, and then back off 4 flats, right??

I believe Haynes recommends locking, then backing off one click.

> Also, if "click"
> means one "flat", then you are wrong.  The adjuster screw is set so that
> you can only go two flats, or 180 from original.  Do not turn your adjuster
> 90 degrees.

As a point of reference, my rear adjusters provide four clicks per 360
degrees.

-- 

Todd Mullins
Todd.Mullins@nrlssc.navy.mil    On the lovely Mississippi (USA) Coast

'74 MGB Tourer with well-adjusted brakes and mal-adjusted driver

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