E-Brake Question
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Melting Slicks
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From: Anderson SC
Cool! This confirms the other diagram as well as all the others. Now if we all remember this.. the next time someone asks one of us can answer this "ex cathedra" and be done with it.
-W
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From: Anderson SC
I was talking abou this part:
"if you have an old timer helping you out he may assume they are installed according to the diagram and **turn one star one way and the other the other way**"
If he really did *that*... he'd accidentally be accomodating my error and be OK.
We've determined beyond a doubt that if they are installed *correctly* you must turn them both the *same* way. Therefore I presume that your old timer should also turn them both the *same* way - assuming he didn't know what I had done - because turning them both the same way is the normal SOP if done by the book)
-W (from here I give up and just assume we're speaking 2 different dialects of English)
Also note that I (of course) DO plan to install them by the book - so we're dealing with a hypothetical situation anyway. I'm confident all the old timers (but yours) will have no problems adjusting my brakes.
"if you have an old timer helping you out he may assume they are installed according to the diagram and **turn one star one way and the other the other way**"
If he really did *that*... he'd accidentally be accomodating my error and be OK.
We've determined beyond a doubt that if they are installed *correctly* you must turn them both the *same* way. Therefore I presume that your old timer should also turn them both the *same* way - assuming he didn't know what I had done - because turning them both the same way is the normal SOP if done by the book)
-W (from here I give up and just assume we're speaking 2 different dialects of English)
Also note that I (of course) DO plan to install them by the book - so we're dealing with a hypothetical situation anyway. I'm confident all the old timers (but yours) will have no problems adjusting my brakes.
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This way or that way?
Maine Vette, thanks for posting the correct instructions, neither the 74 Shop Service Manual or the 66-82 Shop manual have the correct instructions as to which way to install the star wheels.
As far as 'Old Timers' half the time I can't remember if I'm 78 or 87.
All I know is that if I'm at a light and there is a challenge, I'm gone as the other light turns red! That usually leads me to a 50 to 100 foot jump and a protest at the next light that I jumped. To bad sunny, you better learn how to cut a light.
Thanks again to Maine Vette for looking up the correct way to install the adjusters since neither the 74 manual or the 66-82 shop manual offer a clue.
Here's a corrected diagram that may help the rest of the owners that face this problem.
PG.
As far as 'Old Timers' half the time I can't remember if I'm 78 or 87.
All I know is that if I'm at a light and there is a challenge, I'm gone as the other light turns red! That usually leads me to a 50 to 100 foot jump and a protest at the next light that I jumped. To bad sunny, you better learn how to cut a light.
Thanks again to Maine Vette for looking up the correct way to install the adjusters since neither the 74 manual or the 66-82 shop manual offer a clue.
Here's a corrected diagram that may help the rest of the owners that face this problem.
PG.
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From: Wichita KS
I was talking abou this part:
"if you have an old timer helping you out he may assume they are installed according to the diagram and **turn one star one way and the other the other way**"
If he really did *that*... he'd accidentally be accomodating my error and be OK.
We've determined beyond a doubt that if they are installed *correctly* you must turn them both the *same* way. Therefore I presume that your old timer should also turn them both the *same* way - assuming he didn't know what I had done - because turning them both the same way is the normal SOP if done by the book)
-W (from here I give up and just assume we're speaking 2 different dialects of English)
Also note that I (of course) DO plan to install them by the book - so we're dealing with a hypothetical situation anyway. I'm confident all the old timers (but yours) will have no problems adjusting my brakes.
"if you have an old timer helping you out he may assume they are installed according to the diagram and **turn one star one way and the other the other way**"
If he really did *that*... he'd accidentally be accomodating my error and be OK.
We've determined beyond a doubt that if they are installed *correctly* you must turn them both the *same* way. Therefore I presume that your old timer should also turn them both the *same* way - assuming he didn't know what I had done - because turning them both the same way is the normal SOP if done by the book)
-W (from here I give up and just assume we're speaking 2 different dialects of English)
Also note that I (of course) DO plan to install them by the book - so we're dealing with a hypothetical situation anyway. I'm confident all the old timers (but yours) will have no problems adjusting my brakes.
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