21 replies to this topic

[gazza01]

sounds odd...

with the adjuster wound fully out you'd expect them to be an easy fit.

Are the adjusters on a flat?
Are the handbrake levers (in the drum) pivoting freely?
Squeeze the pistons together, to make sure they have backed off.
Take the clevis pins out of the brake cables if your are in any doubt about the handbrake not being fully off.
The shoes should go on with the unlined end at the bottom on the shoe nearest the back of the car and on top for the front shoe.

not according to the haynes. unlined end top/nearest back of car. lined end bottom for shoe nearest front of car pg173  4.15

[lrostoke]

It's an old topic but this is how they go

 

[Shifty]

It's an old topic but this is how they go

 

 

 

As above but I remember it as 

 

"Gap in direction of travel"  The gap at the end of the shoes is in the direction that wheel rotates!!

 

(I have a weird memory!!)

[tiger99]

I don't see how they could be fitted incorrectly, as the handbrake mechanism has to fit into the holes for it, and if they are transposed it is not going to want to fit. But someone will no doubt find a way to get it wrong!

 

That is obviously not the case here, as the shoes must really be the wrong size. I do remember a pair that were rather tight at first, but they usually come good after pressing the pedal and pulling the handbrake really hard to force the shoes to centralise themselves properly. But this seems to be yet another case of declining product quality, of which we are seeing more these days. I suspect that the shoes that don't fit have been made to metric dimensions, or something equally stupid.

[Rorf]

You'd be surprised, they can be put on incorrectly by a ham fisted operator. The part of the shoe which has the larger exposed metal part is called the leading edge of the shoe. The diagram is a perfect explanation.

[Spider]

You'd be surprised, they can be put on incorrectly by a ham fisted operator. The part of the shoe which has the larger exposed metal part is called the leading edge of the shoe. The diagram is a perfect explanation.

 

I'd say just about every Mini & Moke I have bought or worked on when a friend bought one over the past 10 odd years, had at least one or both sides back to front.

[andyapanel]

I have had this problem

Eventually, I removed the new shoes and held them against the ones I had removed. The lugs either end were slightly too long.

They were a good make-Ferodo or Unipart and it was before the flood of poor quality rubbish.