Rear brake adjustment

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Rear brake adjustment

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Sanity check please - to adjust (push the shoes closer to the drum) then you rotate the adjustment wheel DOWN on both sides.

(Understand that there are various ways of describing this but, if stood under the van, looking out, then, effectively, you rotate each wheel downwards to tighten the shoes).


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Down through hole in back plate to make the shoes tighter, same on both sides.
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Re: Rear brake adjustment

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I now remember this as "Loosen up, tighten down".
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MagicWagon wrote:I now remember this as "Loosen up, tighten down".

I like that :ok
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Good one ;-)
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