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Late rear brakes, Bugeye -- rods adjusted

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drooartz

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Okay, I've got the parking brake rods adjusted now using spritenut's trick of cutting the rods and threading them for 1/4-20. Using a union nut, you can then adjust the length to suit. If they need to be even longer, use 2 nuts and a bit of threaded rod.

Here's my current install. The parking brake is not adjusted, just in there close to see if this is going to work. I think I have this roughly the proper way -- the shorter rod from the LH side goes to the side of the compensator closest to the axle (as shown). Please comment if this doesn't look right.

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Also, how much do I need to have taken off the brake drums to get them to fit with the later backing plates? They're definitely too deep to fit as it is.
 
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I sanded off about 1/16" off the brake drum.
A grinder works too, it is the inner edge so it's not too important as long as it doesn't rub. The true test is hard corners, the car I just finished makes just a touch of noise going around a circle, but it will wear off like it did on the 58 in a few hundred miles :wink:
 
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Thanks, Frank.
 
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hay Drooartz, I've just seen your picture while searching for something else brake related, & I've noticed your brakes are upside down. The handbrake leaver should exit the backing plate facing up. either that or I put mine on wrong yesterday & I was holding the workshop manual the wrong way up.
 
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aw nuts, ignore what I just posted, just seen another post as to why you've got them the other way up. They do look a little vulnerable though.
 
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