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Old 10-10-2014, 12:35 PM   #24
Purdy Swoft
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Default Re: Snyder's new brake pedal return spring

With all due respect, getting under the car or possibly removing the floorboards to install the pedal spring really isn't that much more difficult than revoving the five clevis pins and adjusting the five brake rod and pedal rod clevises . After the simple adjustments , if the brakes are in reasonable condition the owner would end up with good brakes and the pedal would always return to the top of travel. Mechanical brakes are simple if a person takes the time to think about how they work. Slack in the brake rods and improper setup of the service brake cross shaft is probably the main cause of poor mechanical brakes. If the brakes are worn to the point of metal to metal contact within the drums its then time to consider a complete brake overhaul , otherwise a common sense adjustment of the brake rods and cross shaft will make an amazing ,world of difference . Some spend large sums replacing drums and just about every part available, then fail to set up the rods and cross shaft correctly and still end up with brakes that are very little if any better than they were to start with . There is enough bad info in a certain mechanics hand book that many try to follow that causes them to never have good brakes, no matter how much that they spend .
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