adjusting handbrake after changing rear shoes

corkgsxr · 21-11-2012 10:01PM #1

07 1.6 hdi berlingo

After changing rear shoes, adjusted the auto adjusters far out as I could and still get the drums on.

Do ya normally have to wait till they bed in before you adjust the handbrake, seems if I adjust it so it's feels ok, It seems to be dragging, adjust it so its doesn't seem to be dragging its abit useless.

So have I fecked up something or just be patient for the shoes to bed in or the adjusters to cop on.

dingding · 21-11-2012 11:07PM

Be careful if they are dragging.

Had a car serviced by a main dealer a good few years ago and the lad changing the shoes, put on the new ones, did not realise that they had adjustirs and just hammered them on.

I drove the car, the drums heated, boiled the brake fluid and the brakes completly failed.

Also melted the rubber seals on the callipers with the heat.

Was lucky I was not killed or I did not kill someone. :eek:

Took 2 car wash tokens of water to cool down the drums at the garage that I coasted into.

I complained to the Irish agents and they said I should have confidence in the main dealer network.

corkgsxr · 22-11-2012 03:17PM

sorted, tiny bend in the adjuster ment it wasnt returning to position.

jacked both back wheels up and adjusted handbrake so no drag but only just,

brakes are super now you can really feel the back are doing something

adjusting handbrake after changing rear shoes

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