Steering, brake fade

[RichardT10829]

Ok, go back through the setup, wind the brakes on so they are solid against the drums, (tracks off). Set your linkage lengths and make sure you have lots of pre load in the foot pedal rods (which should be the same length) don’t forget when you set up your parking brake should be off !!

Now, once you have set your linkage lengths, slowly dial off the shoes from the drums, ignore the 4 turn rule for now, just wind them back to the point you can spin the drums by hand, you may find the drums to catch the shoes ever so slightly.

Jump back in and push the foot brake a bunch of times, this will ensure you are not getting parking brake creep and the brake system is balanced, at this point look down to your brake pedal, is the balance bar level ? Are the inner bell cranks the same distance from the main clevis forks at the base of the steering ?

Yes ?

Ok

Now to adjust the bite point, your main clevis at the base of the steering I wind back on the adjusters, now, for me, I turn the steering to 90 deg at which point I am just getting contact onto the clevis…. Repeat for other side.

Pop your tracks back on, take the carrier for a spin. If you can change gear without the carrier wanting to stop your good…. If not dial back one click at a time until you get desired results.

I can video what I do / have learned if it help, try that in the interim though.