[Spridgets] Rear brake Beehive spring / Steady spring

HealeyRick healeyrik at gmail.com
Sat Sep 22 08:29:47 MDT 2018


I use a BFS to compress the spring and push the hook end into the backing
plate.  Been so long, don't recall the orientation.

Rick Neville

On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 10:18 AM Lester via Spridgets <
spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Good Morning all,
>
> so I noticed that a rear tire was low.  A few weeks later I went to fill
> it with air.  It had come loose from the rim, and mud daubers (wasp here in
> the South) had built a nest between the tire and rim.
>
> Off comes the rim, this reveals a streak of brake fluid down the tire and
> a puddle on the driveway.  This caused me to remove the shoes but first, I
> had to remove that damned spring.  When last I installed these, I stumbled
> on the fact that there is the easy way to install them and a hard way.  The
> hard way takes 30 minutes and a lot of cursing an prying while the easy way
> takes seconds.  does anyone remember my easy way?  I sure don’t.  I vaguely
> recall that if you just push the spring in oriented the correct way it
> snaps on to the fitting on the backing plate.  But of course I don’t
> remember what that orientation is although it “looks like” the hook in the
> spring should be pointed outwards.
>
> What say you all?
>
> TIA,Lester
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