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I've always been easily confused by brake adjustment. That is, the adjusters themselves, not the procedure. I can never remember which direction the brake spoon tightens/loosens the adjuster from wheel to wheel. On my front '70 D-200 axle the spoon motion is 'Loosen up - Tighten down 
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Re: Brake adjustment...?
Posted by: JimmieD (66.81.196.---)
Posts: 1,090
Date: August 23, 2009 09:39AM

Thanks, that will help when I tear it apart. And yeah, it's confusing because the large show is the 'leading shoe' and smaller is 'trailing shoe' but the leading shoe is on the rear, which seems like it's following!?

Now if I could just find the Dana 60 2-9/16" hub socket wrench for less than $35!!! What a bunch of crap on that one, when it's made from stamped recycled steel in China and probably costs $0.17 to purchase there.

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Brake adjustment...? 1143 JimmieD 08/21/2009 11:33AM
Re: Brake adjustment...? 521 beemrmax 08/21/2009 11:49AM
Re: Brake adjustment...? 408 MoparNorm 08/21/2009 12:43PM
Re: Brake adjustment...? 439 JimmieD 08/21/2009 11:22PM
Re: Brake adjustment...? 440 MoparNorm 08/23/2009 08:56AM
Re: Brake adjustment...? 444 Hobcobble 08/23/2009 09:07AM
Re: Brake adjustment...? 394 MoparNorm 08/23/2009 09:30AM
Re: Brake adjustment...? 507 JimmieD 08/23/2009 09:39AM
Re: Brake adjustment...? 502 MoparNorm 08/23/2009 09:46AM
China? Buy an OTC Tool socket 520 beemrmax 08/23/2009 11:49AM
Re: Brake adjustment...? 409 JimmieD 08/24/2009 11:49AM
Re: Brake adjustment...? 430 beemrmax 08/24/2009 01:07PM
Re: Brake adjustment...? 367 MoparNorm 08/24/2009 04:28PM
Even worse... 426 beemrmax 08/24/2009 05:10PM
Re: Brake adjustment...? 365 JimmieD 08/25/2009 11:22AM
OTC stands for... patriotism, and a trivia question. 406 beemrmax 08/25/2009 11:43AM
Re: OTC stands for... patriotism, and a trivia question. 478 MoparNorm 08/25/2009 01:40PM


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