Re: [HSS] Brake Questions - 1929

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Geoff.

----- Original Message -----

From: "jjpippers" <HARPER@fhwelding.com>

To: <HudsonSuperSix16-29@yahoogroups.com>

Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:41 AM

Subject: [HSS] Brake Questions - 1929





> Three questions have cropped up in my brake rebuild.

>

> 1. The manual I have is a little fuzzy on the 'direction' the assembly

> view is for. What I call the 'spreader' (spreads the two shoes)has a

> curved face and a flat face. Is the curved face always towards the

> front of the vehicle?



*****Yes.

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> 2. There is an eccentric spreader for one shoe about 1/3 of the way

> around the shoe. It sticks out the back of the plate aad has a nut

> (for locking) and a flat (to hold it). I have some with a rivetted

> face, and some with a stud on the end that pokes through the shoe and

> retains the spiral wound spring. The manual shows the 'stud' type

> front and rear. I think my car had the 'stud' type in the rear and

> the 'rivet' type in the front. Is this correct?



****You are obviously getting the eccentric stop and the shoe retaining

studs mixed up. The studs are rivetted into the backing plate, the

eccentric stop is for adusting the shoe assembly rearward for minimum

clearance.

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> 3. The manual shows my rear brakes as being assembled 'vertically'

> i.e. actuator at the top. My brakes are rotated about about 22 degrees

> from this position. Is this correct, or is the back plate rivetted on

> wrong?



***This is correct - you couldn't have the lever at the top - the angle

would be all wrong.

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