Installation (All Models Except Escape)
- Clean and sand brake shoe contact points on backing plate. Apply a light coating of lithium base grease to contact points. Apply grease to adjusting cable eye and anchor pin area. Apply grease to adjusting screw, pivot and socket. Ensure brake shoe adjusting lever cable is positioned in groove and not between cable guide and shoe web.
- Ensure cable end is not cocked or binding on anchor pin when installed. All parts should be flat on anchor pin. Ensure brake adjuster screw is installed in same location from which it was removed.
- Brake adjusting screw nuts can also be distinguished by number lines machined around body or nut. One line indicates left-hand nut, and 2 lines indicates right-hand nut. Another way to identify adjusters is to check thread pitch. Right side adjuster has right-hand threads while left side adjuster has left-hand threads. To install, reverse removal procedure.
- On Ranger, check action of adjuster by pulling brake shoe adjusting lever cable toward secondary shoe, activating brake shoe adjusting lever. Brake shoe adjusting lever should snap in above next tooth of adjuster. Release brake shoe adjusting lever cable to return brake shoe adjusting lever to original position and adjuster should turn one notch.
- If adjusting lever action is sluggish instead of positive and sharp, check position of brake shoe adjusting lever on adjusting screw toothed wheel. Brake shoe adjusting lever should contact adjusting wheel one tooth above centerline of brake adjuster screw.