Brake drum adjusters refurb

I've managed to get my drive to work on the car again but among others things that have been done I thought I'd do a quick write up on how to return your red broke drum adjusters.
I found that mine would turn difficultly and also didn't feel the flt so you know how much you had adjusted it. Whilst they are one £8-9 to but why not have go at fixing your existing!

My left one was quite cruddy as you can see

So the first step to do is full wind in the adjustror from the trrar as it comes out of the front, when it gets to the point that you can no longer turn it it'll take one !pre turn with so!e need nose pliers.

After this you can simply push\pull the adjustor cone out, while we have this it's time to clear it up, put the threads on the wired wheel as remeber these are always exposed under the car so keeping them clean coated will help protect them. The cone itself just needs too be cleaned with a cloth, no abrasives and inspect it to check it still has the flats pon it to indicate adjustment.

You'll have noticed that that while taking the adjustor cone out it pushed out the shoe spacers, these can easily be pulled out but make sure you note which way they are tapered otherwise the adjustors won't work.

Shown how they are tapered is in this photo

Against while these are handy out then on the wire wheel to clean them up

Next tackle the actual adjustoer housing itself. Rather than strip and re-paint I opted to wire brush the thick of and cloth clean the insides. Its as clean as its going to get!

Now its time to put it back together and remember, Copper slip, let's not have these seazing up again! 

Copper slip the shoe spaces and re-insert, make sure they aren't pushed in top close as you still have to fit the adjustor from the front.

Finally copper slip the threads of the adjustor and re-fit, loosing back into place and you're done.

When re fitting I intend the put more copper slip in the hole as shown above, Grantred because it will be in the brake drum it will pick up some dust but my thoughts are it stops the dust getting to the spacers/pistons.

Hopefully this helps someone!