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by Amskeptic » Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:55 pm
Sorry I am late. You have to have to have to sand the linings at the same time you sand the drums. You do not have the retainer spring/pins of the earlier higher quality buses. Are your linings a consistent thickness around the circumference of the shoe webs? Sometimes a bad ebrake-left-on wear pattern will not respond to your chamfering. Also, keep your adjustment a little loose here while trying to figure out the squealing. You need both full release with the footbrakes and the ebrake and strong return springs correctly installed, i.e. the upper spring has to be behind the shoe web.
If it comes back, I am guessing dragging shoes.
Colin
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