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On 16 Jul 2003 at 0:21, Kevin Guarnotta wrote: > Well just wanted to report some progress on my '71 squareback. The rear > brake adjusting stars would never move(since I got it) and the emergency > brake never really seemed to grab well, unless I really cranked on it. > > So today I took the rear drums off, looked at the adjusting stars, and they > were either rusted in their holes, or the adjusting bolt was rusted to it. > So a lot of penetrating lubricant later, everything freed. I put some wheel > bearing grease in the hole that the star thing goes in, and some anti-seize > on the threads of the bolt that goes in the adjusting star thing. Once you get the drum off, you can almost always get the star wheels to turn if you grab them with a pair of channel locks. Be careful not to damage the detent spring that is out of sight on the underside of the star wheel. I use anti-seize in both places. > Two things I noticed- > > 1)on the drivers side there was only one bolt holding the drum on(as opposed > to two), and most of the three remaining bolts, two of the heads were pretty > mangled. So I replaced all four with bolts from the hardware store, with a > regular head, so I can take them off with a socket set, instead of needing > an allen wrench. Any head is fine, as long as it doesn't stick up far enough to hit the underside of the road wheel. > 2)on the drivers side the springs that hold the brake shoe on.their was only > a retaining washer on the outside, and on the passenger side there were two, > one on either side of the spring. I couldn't fathom why one way would work > better than the other-so I reinstalled as taken apart. There should just be one retainer washer per spring. > After all the work-approximately 5 hours(too long, but that included a trip > to the hardware store, and also trying to fix the phone wiring on my house, > as my downstairs neighbor was complaining of static) Your next time will go a LOT faster. ;-) -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org