luketrash
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Ames, Iowa
I took my rear drums off last night to inspect a noise I heard when rolling slowly next to a building. It turns out these adjuster cables and springs were snapped and mangled, sitting loose in the bottom of each drum.
Replacements are available, but I have no idea where they go, or how they work.
Are they even necessary? I'm running without them right now. I pulled the screw adjusters out of the bottom, disassembled, greased, and anti-seized them so that they are easy to adjust. My brakes are actually working well right now thanks to adjusting them properly upon reassembly.
But I'm curious about the goofy spring loaded cable thing pictured above.
American brake shoes and their springs look like Rube Goldberg devices to me. I'm used to motorcycles and British sports cars where there's two springs and that's it.