Thanks Dennis and Scott.

What I'd like to do someday, even just to show how the adjuster works,
is cut a "window" section out of an old brake drum so one could see
what happens with the shoes actually pushing up against the drum.

I think that would be possible.

Neil.

On 5/13/16, Scott <SCOTTDANIEL@turbovans.com> wrote:

> I've never had to replace one ..
> on hundreds of vanagons even ..
> There is some wear on the teeth of the wheel and on the pawl that
> notches into it, sure,
>
> Never had a problem though.  Not a weak are at all let's say.
>
> I do make sure the star wheel turns freely on the threads it rides on
> ..I make super sure of that.
> and I make sure the threaded 'bolt' turns very freely inside the round
> thing ..
> never saw one rusty there or stuck in any way.
>
> 'almost never a problem' is your basic answer, at least in my world.
>
> Scott

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