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On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 22:23, Jim Adney wrote: > On 15 Oct 2004 at 10:33, Jim Webster wrote: > > > Getting those springs to clip in from the rear was a pain > > I've never worked on these brakes, but from the looks of them, I'd say that the > way to do this would be to fit all the springs to the shoes, and THEN slip the > whole works into place. Yes, you'd have to lever them on a bit, but I doubt if > this would be hard, and it certainly wouldn't be as hard as trying to thread > the springs into place AFTER the shoes were installed. ;-) Bingo, That was the way the factory recommended to do it. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~