Saturday, Mar 04, 2006 at 14:03
Yeah I gotta say (after just replacing my shoes in the surf) that drums are an absolute pain in the but WHEN they need servicing, but for the most part they are quite reliable and I can only imagine the surf's drums would be at LEAST the same size as yours if not smaller and they are MASSIVE bloody drums. And as said above, you can't beat the old drum operated handbrake, mines awsome now that I've cleaned it all out, replaced the shoes and adjusted it. The car stops awsome, ever since I've had it the brakes have been a bit lathargic, even after doing the front pads and bleeding all round, but after doing those big mother drums at the back it's awsome.
If you think the drums need adjusting, you can either get behind the drum, remove the bung and fiddle fart around with a flat head screw driver to tightent them up a little, or if it's like
mine you can just pull the hand brake in and out 5 or 10 times and you'll feel it start to stiffen up as the handbrake is hooked up to the adjuster to make it seem like they adjust "automatically". Of course if you do a stupid ass thing like me and drive for 50k along
the beach with your handbrake half out (the light on the dash hasn't worked for some while now) or you have done some heavy braking (lots of towing etc) then you may need to do some "catch up" with the adjustments by doing it with the handbrake.
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