Its took me all morning to remove clean up and adjust one effing drum brake on the bus Thanks to whoever in its past life decided to chew the adjustment slots larger the rubber bungs are no longer present Because of this water has got in and siezed the star adjusters Also when is it good practice to hold the handbrake cable sleeve in place with silcone sealent What pains me the most is ive just cleaned everything up unseized and lubed the adjusters scoured inside the drum face and scoured the shoes and put it all back together Im so looking forward to stripping it all back out after the mot and replacing what needs replacing and painting the parts up to the same standard as the front end Oh well i better go and price up new drums and back plates and new handbrake cables and rear flexi hoses I wonder if new backplates come with the rubber bungs or if they have to be bought seperatly at a rip off price
Bungs are extra Paradude, Mine were the same (elongated holes) fortunatley my drums were still good, Watch out if you get the JK Star adjusters they didn't fit on mine and i ended up re using the old ones.
99 out of 100 have chewed up holes. Early's adjust through the drum - no backplate holes and you don't even have to crawl under the van.
you can put any old rubber piece in to block the holes. Did you use copper grease on the adjusters and brake moving parts? Makes adjustment nice and slick for the future
at least now its all freed of it will strip back down easy cant you repair the back plates? if you have a welder you could make up a repair plate and put it over the old hole?
After seeing the price of new back plates i will be welding new steel into my old ones Then ill drill new adjusting holes to take some generic rubber grommits I shouldent have moaned really i just got feck all sleep last night and expected to get more than one drum done today Oh well heres hoping for good weather tmw as the wifes got a day off work
im thinking a couple of washers per side welded to each back plate is much cheaper than £50 per side ;D
there's some for sale in the for sale section http://thelatebay.com/index.php?topic=8516.0 Sorry just saw there disc baking plates
paradox i have some adjusters and some drums if you want them if you can pick um up or if someone is passing near me in warrington no problem free of course i should throw things out but i dont
hey paradox I have a couple of spare backplates you can have,one of which 'stared' in my 'Home electrolysis-that's rust not hair removal' thread! the other is still rusty but in good nik. p.m me your address if your interested and I'll shove them your way
