Adjusting the rear brakes is only required when installing new brakes.  The adjusting work very well...assuming you took them out, cleaned them, and greased them.

Two common errors that cause them NOT to work:
 - Upper brake springs installed incorrectly - the open hook that attaches to the backing plate should be facing UP not down; if the hook faces down, the backside of the spring is touching the brake adjuster and preventing it from doing its job
 - Improper installation of brake adjuster - Two piece mechanism, the sleeve has a square corner and a cutoff corner, the cutoff corner must be on the inside of the brake shoe

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Jeff Oxroad <Oxroad@AOL.COM> wrote:
Have we agreed on a system for adjusting the rear brakes? Turn the star
adjuster until wheel can't be turned by hand then back off (loosen) 8 clicks, 10
clicks, 15 clicks?

Bentley offers nothing except to say when installing new brakes "Depress the
pedal several times before driving so that rear brakes self adjust." OK. Then
how about I depress the gas pedal several times to adjust the timing.

My self adjusters don't work. And they never will. And believe me it has me
AND the brake pedal sufficiantly depressed with little or no improvement to the
braking.

I checked the archives and found discussion on adjusting but didn't find any
numbers as far as to specifically how how much to tighten then how much to
loosen.

Any info. appreciated.
Thanks
Jeff
83.5 Westfalia
LA,CA

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