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Old 07-16-2017, 01:03 PM   #16
Keith True
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Default Re: Brake adjustment tool

If you adjust the brakes according to the service bulletins everything will be adjusted the way it is supposed to.Pushing and pulling on parts until the pins fit the way they tell you to will take out all the normal slop and wear.Adjusting your brakes to some arbitrary position of a board won't take any of that into consideration..005 here,.010 there,have that kind of slop in 20 places and the board becomes useless.I looked at a Fordor that the owner had lots of new parts in,and everything looked really good.He had almost no brakes.Lot of pedal,but not much stop.He used the board.His right front and left rear would lock,but the other two wheels would keep turning.He thought that board was the holy grail.We chased him out of the garage and adjusted his brakes correctly,the car stops on a dime.
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