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re:spongy brakes

To: Leon <markiiibuy@yahoo.com>, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: re:spongy brakes
From: Douglas Braun <doug@dougbraun.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 07:26:53 -0500
All I had to do was loosen the adjustment one "click", and the
problem went away.

To get the parking brake to work reasonably well , you really need to
check the entire system.  After I bought my car, I lubricated  all
the joints and the places where the cables go around bends.
I also replaced a couple of worn-out clevis pins.  Afterwards,
the parking brake worked much better.

Doug Braun
'72 Spit


At 08:52 PM 1/29/03 -0800, Leon wrote:
>snip>One of the rear wheels was 
>REAL hot!
>I burned my fingers on the lug nuts trying to remove the wheel...
>
>Doug >
>
>Ouch! yea, not THAT tight, but shouldn't the e brake almost lock the back 
>wheels at low speed on dry pavement???

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