Re: [T3] question on rear disc brakes continued...

[John Benedetto <jbenedet@unm.edu>]

<x-flowed>--On Wednesday, April 28, 2004 7:01 AM -0700 Todd Heimer 
<todd_heimer@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Trying to wrestle those drum brake springs back in the
> holes of the shoes with a needle nose pliers was not
> much fun.

This is another example of "the correct tool for the correct job"... You 
know they make a tool to install those springs, right?

I think anyone that does their own repair work should invest in proper 
tools. Trying to install brake shoe springs with needle nose pliers sounds 
too much like a recipe for losing an eye.  (Were you at least wearing 
safety goggles when you did this?).  Of course, to be completely honest, I 
used vice grips when I first tried to install brake shoe springs (we're 
talking 23 years ago, I was what, 16?)...  and that's part of the reason of 
why I bought the ding-dong brake shoe pliers!

Anyway, all of my adult life, I have been way too happy to buy new toys, 
er, new tools for doing new jobs.

- john in Albuquerque

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