Ford Explorer, Maintaince And Repair Manual

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Apply a light coating of Lubriplate® at the points where the brake shoes contact the backing plate. 12.
Position the brake shoes on the backing plate, and install the hold−down spring pins, springs, and
spring washer−type retainers. Install the parking brake link, spring and washer. Connect the parking
brake cable to the parking brake lever. 13.
Install the anchor pin plate, and place the cable anchor over the anchor pin with the crimped side
toward the backing plate. 14.
Install the primary shoe−to−anchor spring with the brake tool. 15.
Install the cable guide on the secondary shoe web with the flanged holes fitted into the hole in the
secondary shoe web. Thread the cable around the cable guide groove. 16.
Install the secondary shoe−to−anchor (long) spring. Be sure that the cable end is not cocked or
binding on the anchor pin when installed. All of the parts should be flat on the anchor pin. Remove
the wheel cylinder piston clamp. 17.
Apply Lubriplate® to the threads and the socket end of the adjusting starwheel screw. Turn the
adjusting screw into the adjusting pivot nut to the limit of the threads and then back off
1
/
2
turn.
18.
Interchanging the brake shoe adjusting screw assemblies from one side of the vehicle to the other would
cause the brake shoes to retract rather than expand each time the automatic adjusting mechanism
operated. To prevent this, the socket end of the adjusting screw is stamped with an R or an L for
RIGHT or LEFT. The adjusting pivot nuts can be distinguished by the number of lines machined
around the body of the nut; one line indicates left hand nut and 2 lines indicates a right hand nut.
Place the adjusting socket on the screw and install this assembly between the shoe ends with the
adjusting screw nearest to the secondary shoe. 19.
Place the cable hook into the hole in the adjusting lever from the backing plate side. The adjusting
levers are stamped with an R(right) or an L(left) to indicate their installation on the right or left hand
brake assembly. 20.
Position the hooked end of the adjuster spring in the primary shoe web and connect the loop end of
the spring to the adjuster lever hole. 21.
Pull the adjuster lever, cable and automatic adjuster spring down toward the rear to engage the pivot
hook in the large hole in the secondary shoe web. 22.
After installation, check the action of the adjuster by pulling the section of the cable between the cable
guide and the adjusting lever toward the secondary shoe web far enough to lift the lever past a tooth
on the adjusting screw starwheel. The lever should snap into position behind the next tooth, and
release of the cable should cause the adjuster spring to return the lever to its original position. This
return action of the lever will turn the adjusting screw starwheel one tooth. The lever should contact
the adjusting screw starwheel one tooth above the center line of the adjusting screw. 23.
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