<VV> Brakes pulling right and no light

[Bryan Blackwell]

Before you tear into them again, I would ask a couple of things:

  - Have you bedded the new shoes?  That's 10 hard stops.
  - Have you either manually or used the auto-adjusters to adjust the  
brakes?

I've mentioned before that I found drum brakes need to be closer than  
I initially thought.  I had many problems with brakes pulling until I  
figured this out.  You are correct that one brake will pull the car to  
the side, keep in mind that one brake grabbing before the other will  
do the same thing.

Since you did a dual master conversion, I can't recall if you adjusted  
the m/c pushrod.  That's the tuning fork piece that attaches to the  
pedal arm and goes into the rubber boot.  The switch is the plastic  
part with the plunger.  It uses two nuts on the plastic body to adjust.

--Bryan

On Aug 2, 2009, at 2:14 AM, Stephen Upham wrote:

> Anyway, is there a
> way to adjust the brakes to grab at the same pressure using the self
> adjusting "star" wheel, or am I looking at yet another new set of
> shoes up front?  One club member who is widely respected nationally
> in the Corvair community said that would probably be the only way to
> solve the problem.