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Rear "rubbers" Question

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Subject: Rear "rubbers" Question
From: Mike Mason <mmason@lindenwood.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 14:53:36 -0500 (CDT)
I have another wierd question.  I bought the fitting kit for the rear 
brake cylinders.  The kit includes the little rubber gizmo that seals 
around the hand brake lever and the three "shims/locking plates" that 
hold the cylinder to the back plate.

The rubber seal has a square section that looks like it is supposed to go 
around the locking plates

                             /  This part of the seal
          /----------------------
        /        {               ]
       [  ____   {               ]
       [  [___]  [               ]
       [         [               ]
        \        [               ]
          \______[_______________]

I tried to put them under the edge of the locking plates, but then could 
not get the other two plates into the grooves.  If I don't put the rubber 
part under the first locking plate, then they just hang out with nothing 
to keep them in place, like a loose rubber band.  

Does any of this make sense?  I never was an artist and this medium 
doesn't help much!  Is there something I am missing here?  What in the 
heck are these things supposed to seal anyway...other than the hand brake 
lever?

Thanks for the help, maybe now I'll stop having those bad dreams about my 
rear brakes falling off!

Michael in St. Louis


(Forgive the abuse of technical language but I don't have a manual here 
at the office.  Must not be totally addicted yet?) 


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