I have found this to be true on all new parts listed. My fix was to run a
weld bead down the back of the mask (the part that the adjuster sits in)
then grind it flat. I've done this on two cars and it seems to work.
Larry Miller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bud Pazur" <bpazur@excel.net>
To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 2:27 PM
Subject: Help - Weird Rear Brake Problem
> WST and I replaced the rear disc brakes on SilverStreak last year with
> later
> 948 drums. It sat all winter, and now I find that I can't adjust them. It
> appears that the adjuster wedges ( Moss part #181-905) are not long enough
> to
> engage the adjuster tappet (Moss #181-895). My sincere apologies ;-) for
> referencing Mo$$ (we got all the parts from PPP), but I just want people
> to
> know what the parts I am talking about are. When the adjuster tappet is
> screwed all the way in, it doesn't begin to move the wedges, and hence,
> the
> shoes, out. Has anyone encountered this problem? I want to autocross at RA
> MOTRAH 007 in May, but this throws a monkey wrench into that plan.
>
> TIA
>
> Bud
>
> Whitey - 1275 Street Bugeye
> SilverStreak - 1275 Race Sprite
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> "The Buddha... resides as comfortably in the gears of a...transmission as
> he
> does in the petals of a flower"
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