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Re: [TR] Brake Assembly Questions

To: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>, "'list Triumph'" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [TR] Brake Assembly Questions
From: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:15:48 -0000
>> My question is...what parts should be
>> "lubed" during assembly? Anything that has metal to metal contact?
>
> I put just a touch of grease where the shoes touch the backplate; and some
> "dry moly" where the cylinder & it's clips touch the backplate.  Adjuster
> screw gets anti-seize, adjuster pistons & wedge get grease.  But nothing on
> the shoe ends where they touch the cylinder and adjuster.

Randall's advice as always, is excellent. However, I'd just add that IMHO *a 
touch* of grease should 
ideally read *a touch of high melting point grease* might be better? We don't 
know what ambient 
conditions this car operates in and HMP is the only grease I've ever used in my 
brakes in chilly old 
UK. Don;t like to think of any kind of lubricant getting out of control in the 
"stop" department of 
my car :)

Jonmac 
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