Rear brakes

[rubberdubber]

Next weekend im planning on doing the rear end brakes on my late bay panel van. I gotta replace the rear metal pipes, cylinders, shoes, backplates and drums. Just got a couple of questions really, does the backplate just bolt on? to remove do i just undo the 3 bolts and pull the handbrake through?

Also i found a picture online of a backplate fully assembled (below) and looking at what ive got i appear to be missing a clip, its the one arrowed in the pic. Is it important as it wasnt there before? :lol:

cheers

 

[Fortunate Son]

Yep, just undo 3 No bolts (top one is wheel cylinder mounting bolt, bottom two just below lower spring). When refitting, tighten lower bolts first, then drive locating pin back in from under van using drift / punch.

The spring in your pic keeps the return spring from unhooking itself from the shoes (though it would have to bend loads to unhook IMO) - VW Heritage sell em for £1.30 (32 Clip return spring to bar [211-609-625])

Hope this helps

FS

 

[rubberdubber]

Thanks FS! Whats the locating pin?

 

[Fortunate Son]

On the backing plate, just below the 2 No lower bolt holes, there is a 3rd hole of slightly smaller diameter. when the b/plate is bolted up in place a sliding pin mounted in the hub assembly fits in this hole. I found it impossible to fit the b/plate on to the pin, hence drive the pin into the hub assembly first, bolt up 3 No b/plate bolts then drive pin back (from inside of hub in an outward direction.

 

[rubberdubber]

cheers, thanks for the help Not looking forward to getting the hub off did you have to use a puller?

 

[james_stan]

I think a puller would be ideal but you will probably have to make one.

I did mine some years ago now but I do recall my mate banging the drum all around with a 4lb
hammer and a block of wood. Then we reversed the big castle nut to save teh spindle threads
and banged that hard too - both sides came off eventually, but as I say a puller would have been less stressful - I was cringing as the hammer blows fell.

My mate mends piling machines and has little respect for large metal objects not behaving themsleves..

Good luck

James

DOH ! Forget all that - just read you're on a Late bay ...

 

[rubberdubber]

Cheers think ive still gotta have the hub off to remove the back plate anway

 

[the councillor]

through a combination of having done this job myself and actually knowing the 'physics' of the hub assembly (for want of a better word) on a late bay, you just undo the castle nut (you could write a dissertation about people's troubles undoing this thing, but if you're properly tooled up and prepared, and you need to be to be honest, this is a highly torqued 46mm nut; we're not talking about meccano here... use the right equipment however and it's as easy as undoing a wheel nut. fact.) and the hub simply slides off a lubricated, splined shaft.

as i recall it was so simple, and yet such a satisfying process that i got my boy to do it, and he was possibly four.

*have no fear*

8)