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Old 6th December 2021, 12:27   #21
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That picture number seven shows only half the disc working.

To generate the same stopping power of a clean disc about twice the normal pressure would be needed on the brake pedal.

You would end up with your right leg much stronger than your left.---




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Old 6th December 2021, 13:50   #22
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MGR's instructions were simply to centralise the shoes to aid adjustment. Not to clean the drums.

Yes, that's my interpretation of the instruction too.

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Old 13th December 2021, 22:04   #23
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You are supposed to centralise the rear handbrake shoes when you adjust the handbrake. This is done standing still, not moving? I can not see what driving slowly forwards to centralise the brake shoes would achieve, if that were possible?
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Old 14th December 2021, 08:57   #24
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I can not see what driving slowly forwards to centralise the brake shoes would achieve ...
I agree Dave, but that's what RAVE describes (see my post no. 17 for details) but without giving any reasoning.

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When the handbrake is on there's a slight movement backwards and forwards of the car.---This seems to be part
of the way the shoes and back plate fit together.

Perhaps this driving forward cuts this backlash in half leaving the shoes central to the drum.-------------
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Old 14th December 2021, 17:35   #26
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Don't know which way to turn?

I thought you were going to relate the well known writer and conscientious objector Lytton Strachey who when pulled up in WW1 before the tribunal was asked "Suppose your sister was threatened by a German soldier what would you do?" To which he replied in his high pitched squeaky voice "Get between them!".
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