Re: [Amc-list] Dang left-braking car, anyway

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Not a big drumbrake fan.
A quick note
Be careful of backing the brakes off too far.
When the brakes are too loose they can grab and twist [or is it twist and grab?]
Anyway too loose can actualy increase the pull due to them "grabbing" when the brakes are initialy applied.
I usualy fully inspect the adjusting mechanisms and carefuly adjust the brakes to get the same amount of drag.
If the drums went on a seperate times I would not panic till the newest one has some miles on it to break it in.

That being said I have had some real PIA moments trying to get a pull out of a drum brake setup.

That is one reason one of the first things I do is ditch them.

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrc II
" Chronic Pain Hurts"

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Bruce Griffis wrote:
> 
> > Adjusted the brakes until they dragged just a little bit against the
> > drum. Backed it up a bunch of times, hitting the brakes to adjust
> > them. Drove around the neighborhood, took my hands off the steering
> > wheel, hit the brakes, the car hung a left. Pulled hard to the left at
> > speed. Running out of things to check.
> 
> Jack it up and see if they are adjusted to the same amount
> of dragging.  If the pulling side is dragging a lot more,
> make sure you have the left and right self-adjusters right --
> They're different left and right.
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