Re: P2 brake balance assembly
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2020 4:57 pm
Hi Tony
I've made some progress today. Firstly adjusted front rods to stop the offside snatching. Checked both set of shoes are correctly set and the tyre pressures match. Lengthened the offside transfer rod but 8 turns of the yoke didn’t seem to loosen it up (there was no play in it). So reset that and shortened the nearside rod. This only took 3 or 4 turns before grinding on dirt so I decided to leave it at that. Had to replace another snapped cotter pin.
Then loosened off the handbrake quite considerably. Initially this allowed more notches but I could see that there was no freeplay before the rods started moving. Backed off the nuts some more until there was a tiny bit of free play. It now allows 4 notches just. The test run showed some improvement in that the pull to the left on sharp braking was minimised and I think down to a tolerable level. The handbrake was a lot better but wasn’t quite holding on Old Hill- slipping back slowly. I think get the MoT done and get some figures off that before doing more.
Rob
I've made some progress today. Firstly adjusted front rods to stop the offside snatching. Checked both set of shoes are correctly set and the tyre pressures match. Lengthened the offside transfer rod but 8 turns of the yoke didn’t seem to loosen it up (there was no play in it). So reset that and shortened the nearside rod. This only took 3 or 4 turns before grinding on dirt so I decided to leave it at that. Had to replace another snapped cotter pin.
Then loosened off the handbrake quite considerably. Initially this allowed more notches but I could see that there was no freeplay before the rods started moving. Backed off the nuts some more until there was a tiny bit of free play. It now allows 4 notches just. The test run showed some improvement in that the pull to the left on sharp braking was minimised and I think down to a tolerable level. The handbrake was a lot better but wasn’t quite holding on Old Hill- slipping back slowly. I think get the MoT done and get some figures off that before doing more.
Rob