Progress Thread Therapy Car-- Freshening Up the Lower Intake

General karthief said:

What's not lining up?

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that self adjuster is not up on top like it should be... see in pic below.. I just did mine a week a so ago... and everything looks like in this video..

Also, the Red (bottom spring) I see in your pic of the other side, you have it on the back side, where everything I seen show the spring on the top side like in pic below... not sure if that makes an difference in function or not.. but in any case if that spring is pulling it tight like it should, that self adjuster tab/lever should be getting pulled into the correct position like seen below.

the Pass side, looks right with how the self adjusting lever is setting (except the red spring is on the inside). On your drivers side, everything looks like it's right... the shoe with more pad surface (is the secondary shoe, and goes to the back, so that looks right) so I'm not sure why that adjuster lever is not up like it should be.

I think this is your problem, that part I circled, that part the cable goes over, has a little lip in the back that should be in that hole the end of spring goes in... so that part needs to move to the right more... which should make that cable that goes down to the self adjuster lever tighter and lift it up where it needs to be. The way it is now, that should/would make that cable looser/more slack in it.

Go to timestamp 3:50 in that LMR video I posted before... that shows what I'm talking about...

Olivethefet said:

I see what you are talking about. That thing doesn't look like it is seated correctly. And yes, if it moved back more it would pick up on the adjuster lever. My in-laws are coming in today to stay for the weekend. Hopefully I can find a few minutes to check this out. I think you nailed it though.

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Yeah, I everything else looks correct... so once you get that into position you should be fine. now the pass side, like I said you have the red bottom spring on the back side... not sure if that will really make difference in function, but if were me I would put it like they intended... below is pic from the 1990 service manual that shows it the way it is in video also.

That lever on the adjuster definitely looks like it is sitting better, as it should. Hope that got it for you!