At 12:27 PM 12/8/99 -0500, EMZ wrote:
>   Hi all,
>    Can anyone explain what the small spring is for, inside
>the rear wheel cylinders? It obviously keeps them pushing out.
>Except for assembly reasons, I can't figure these out?

I guess you could say it's for assembly reasons.  The pistons have to be
kept apart until the cylinder fills with fluid, at which point the spring
is no longer needed.  You could probably get by with a piece of springy
plastic, but the spring has been used for 80 years.

Ian Cameron