Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:02:14 -0700
Reply-To: "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\"" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\"" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Cockeyed Parking Brake Equalizer
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Thanks, Jay!
Jim Felder wrote, "I would start by jacking up the wheels, popping the
little rubber cover off the adjuster hole in the backing plate,..."
Where be that rubber cover on the backing plate? Does Bentleys have a
picture?
And, with the tire off the ground, the brake off, and the (automatic)
transmission in Neutral, is it normal for the tire to not spin freely,
but have some drag?
--
Rocky J Squirrel
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Bend, OR
KG6RCR
Jay lefstein wrote:
> ok, so yeah they show a funky tool ... I work at a shop that was a vw
> dealer from the 50's till 2003... we don't have or use that tool... may
> have had it long before i worked there.. i use a rather short flat
> screwdriver..
>
> jack on side of the van up till the wheel will spin ( chock the front
> wheels first ) .. now adjust till it's tight and then 2 click s back (
> the wheel should seem slow but free )
>
> now do this on the other side...
>
> this is simple when you have done it but takes patients and trial and
> error when doing it your first time... sorry my description is so poor.
> i hope it helps
>
> ps, this does not guarantee your equaliser will be perfectly straight ..
> mine isn't .... are you sure you don't have a bigger brake problem? have
> you taken a drum off? maybe you have a had a sticking P/brake cable?
>
> brakes are easy once you have done them with someone who knows... i did
> them from the bently first time and it worked but now after seeing a guy
> do them, who has been doing them since vanagons existed i can do it
> better ;)
>
> good luck
> J
> On 10-Jul-10, at 10:22 AM, Mike Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>
>> I'm looking at Bentley's and what I see is the top photo on 46.9 which
>> looks like there has been some disassembly done, using more than a
>> screwdriver, it seems. Am I not seeing the e-z way to adjust the brakes?
>>
>> And, is adjusting the brakes how one gets that equalizer piece
>> uncockeyed?
>>
>> --
>> Rocky J Squirrel
>> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
>> Bend, OR
>> KG6RCR
>>
>>
>>
>> Jay lefstein wrote:
>>> you don't have a small / med flat screw driver? thats all it takes ;)
>>> On 10-Jul-10, at 9:59 AM, Mike Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>>>> Given that my parking brake doesn't do a whole lot, I climbed under the
>>>> van to take some slack out of the linkage. I stopped when I saw that
>>>> the
>>>> equalizer (Bentleys 46.11) is at quite an angle, not at a right
>>>> angle to
>>>> the centerline of the van as I expected. I'm not sure what this
>>>> means. I
>>>> don't have the tools to adjust the brakes.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Rocky J Squirrel
>>>> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>>>> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
>>>> Bend, OR
>>>> KG6RCR
>
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