Removed the rear drums from the Edsel. I do not see the typical self adjuster set up that I've seen on other 9" I've worked on. Both sides look the same. Is this correct? Or should I buy a kit and put it on? Sent from my SM-N920V using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
The Edsel was one of the first cars to have modern self adjusting brakes. You might want to get those parts and install them. Those shoes look pretty nice, eh?
Lots of people left those parts off when they did a at home, in the garage brake job. I would replace them with new parts.
On my '59, I left them as is, no self adjusters. The slot for the adjuster was absent from the backing plates so if I have to adjust them 2X a year, so be it.
That was about the time they started putting self adjusters on brakes. If the car came without self adjusters then typically one adjuster slot was at the front of the brake and the other adjuster was to the rear of the brake. To properly set up a car that came without self adjuster , you may have to add an adjuster slot on one side of the car and make sure you put the correct adjuster on each side of the car as there is a left and a right.
When I was doing brakes for a living starting in 1976 I saw a lot of cars that had the factory self-adjusters removed. Of course we put them back on and the customer coughed up for them.
the star wheel for manual and self adjusting are different...the manual one has very coarse, rounded teeth, which rub against the spring to keep it in place. The self type has sawtooth shaped fine teeth, that ratchet on the actuator lever.
I never seen self adjusters keep up that well. Most of the time the cable rusted and broke and ends up taking out the drum. I would leave them off.
I agree with Saltflats. Even if installed and working right you should still check and adjust the adjustment once, or twice, a year. -Dave
It was nothing to add it on. So I did. Thanks everyone for their input. Sent from my SM-N920V using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
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