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I just removed my backing plates and discovered the same think Pilotdave did. Les's book tells us to remove the backing plate and brakes to rebuild, but the only way I could get them out was to remove the parking brake lever. Since it appears the parking brake spring is a real bugger to install, it would seem it would be easier to do this on the bench. However, then it seems the only way to get the whole assembly back together is to remove the radius rods. I haven't had the radius rods out, so apparently there is a trade off between removing the radius rods and doing the parking brake springs on the bench versus leaving the radius rods installed and doing the parking brake springs per the suggestions. Please give my your opinion on which is the lesser evil!
Thanks,
Larry