Brakes 33/34

darcy · Post by **darcy** » Wed Feb 12, 2020 4:36 am

A strange request, but can anyone assist me with a photo or instructions on how the return spring on the brake pedal is fitted, mine didn't have one and while I have tried several configurations, none seem to work to my satisfaction, so over to the gurus? I may be trying to use too big or too small a spring?

Thank you

Danish · Post by **Danish** » Wed Feb 12, 2020 11:59 am

Hooks to the engine back plate- I think...

telco.2 · Post by **telco.2** » Wed Feb 12, 2020 12:31 pm

It does on mine too - on to a small right angled bracket about 1.5mm thick. There was a hole already drilled in the back plate for it

Peter McKercher · Post by **Peter McKercher** » Wed Feb 12, 2020 5:07 pm

Can anyone post a picture of the arrangement. I don't have a spring on mine and see no logical place for it to connect either at the pedal or the engine mounting plate.

jeans_old_man · Post by **jeans_old_man** » Fri Feb 14, 2020 12:09 pm

Sorry for the delay - 80 mph winds prevented me opening the garage doors!
My '35 car has an elongated clevis pin at the pedal end. There are two holes in it for split pins - one retains the pedal, the other the spring. The other end of the spring is hooked onto the bottom of the engine 'U' bolt using a washer with a bent tab on it.

I'm not sure if that is the original arrangement but it was like that when I got the car in 1967 and has worked fine ever since!

Peter McKercher · Post by **Peter McKercher** » Fri Feb 14, 2020 1:20 pm

Excellent. That looks right. Hooking to the engine backing plate did not look correct. Too much of an angle. Thank you for posting.

darcy · Post by **darcy** » Fri Feb 14, 2020 6:48 pm

Likewise

Joanymalony · Post by **Joanymalony** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 8:09 pm

I have a '33 Le Mans that I am nearly finished and didn't realise that the brake should have a return spring. Lucky I saw this article

David

telco.2 · Post by **telco.2** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:15 am

Sorry about giving incorrect information on the brake pedal return spring....I had "forgotten" that the engine in mine is 14hp with 1 1/2 litre gearbox. Slightly different set up

jeans_old_man · Post by **jeans_old_man** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 11:04 am

You are forgiven, Bill. By the way - are you the gentleman that took this photograph of my car around 1975 during a Lakeland run organised by the Binghams?

telco.2 · Post by **telco.2** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 5:42 pm

Thanks...I'm not often described as a gentleman!!
But no I didn't take the photo although I was at the rally and had a small part in organizing it.

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