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Re: Tight Brakes

To: "Bob Donahue" <bobmgtd@insightbb.com>, "mgs" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Tight Brakes
From: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:55:06 +0100
----- Original Message ----- 
> Should I .....
>     Don't worry, be happy?

Definitely not

>     Take short slow drives until the linings break in?

Ditto

>     Not drive at all until I find some linings that don't drag?

The ones you have been given may be incorrect. I've heard of linings where
one can't get the correct adjustment with the adjuster fully in, I see no
reason why other incorrect linings could not give the opposite effect. Check
the curvature, length, distance from the faces on the web where they contact
the adjuster and piston to the friction material face 'tween old and new,
and the curvature of old and new with the drum.

>     Other?

Make sure the pistons and fully back in the bores i.e. their back faces are
touching each other, and the adjuster 'bits' (don't know the TD adjuster
details) are also fully retracted.

PaulH.




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