Date:         Tue, 23 Dec 2014 08:24:14 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: adjusting rear brakes!
Comments: To: Dick Wong <sailingfc@dslextreme.com>
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At 01:57 AM 12/23/2014, Dick Wong wrote:
>You might be right.  I did some adjusting about a week ago and thought they
>both turned CCW or maybe I just think they did.  Dang dyslexia.

  I need to get inside mine before long.  The adjusters clearly
aren't doing their jobs.  I'm not sure I've ever taken apart a drum
brake where the adjuster was working, come to think of it.  Vanagon,
Toyota...any others were so long ago I can't remember anything about
them: Saab 96, Plymouth Horizon maybe.  I remember the Saab
happening, because I'd never worked on drum brakes and was scared of
them.  So when they started screaming I replace the front pads
instead.  Stuffed them in right out front of the FLAPS and drove away
with the laughter of the universe ringing in my burning ears.
<cringe>  I wish I could say that taught me to respect reality in
mechanical things, but I was forty before getting past stuff like
"cleaning all the dirt off before I open that up is way too hard,
therefor I don't have to do it."  I would have laughed at such a
silly thing but I clearly suffered from a disconnect there
somewhere.  Now in my fading years I'm much more likely to do things
right even if inconvenient; and when I occasionally do them wrong I
expect to get bitten by it.

Yours, and Merry Christmas,
David