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On 20 Oct 2001, at 0:56, Square67@aol.com wrote: > My father mentioned haveing my shoes arched, is this necessary? the > ebrake is easily engaged by a little pull the handle, and it works > well. if my rear brakes were out of adjustment enough to interfere, > wouldnt my ebrake not work well? We usually don't turn VW drums, so the shoes generally don't need to be arced, although this might be a small part of the problem. I wonder if you parking brake is adjusted properly. It's cables should be loosened up and then the rear shoes adjusted. Then, and only then, should the cables be adjusted. Adjusting these wrong can lead to other problems, but I don't see how it could lead to your symptoms, however. > Also I am wondering if I have a faulty MC, though it is new. what > would my brakes feel like if only one half of my MC was fuctioning? > could it be what I have discribed(3 to 4 pumps)? I would think that if > one half was not runctioning I would still have better brake pressure > than I get, unless it part of the MC that controls the front, right? I haven't been able to come up with any explanation that is consistent with your symptoms that might come down to a MC problem. One thing that I keep wondering about is the angled adjuster screw slots that Russ mentioned. He's absolutely right: If you have the screws turned the wrong way the adjustment will be funky. The bottoms of the slots are angled so that the contact surfaces will be approximately radial to the center of the rotation of the drum. We're also assuming that you got all the return springs and hardward in there right, as well as the little locating springs/cups/pins, and the parking brake lever and equalizing bar. - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org