Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:41:56 -0700
Reply-To: Jay lefstein <jleftbrane@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jay lefstein <jleftbrane@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Cockeyed Parking Brake Equalizer
In-Reply-To: <4C38AC4F.8040802@gmail.com>
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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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