Bendix self adjusters

Why are Bendix self adjusters - the ones with a screw-jack, toothed wheel and little metal spring such utter utter crap?

The teeth on the wheel wear out, the little leaf springs break, the screw-jack jams.

Dire.

Best self adjusters I ever saw was simple. A spring rather like the shoe hold-down spring only much bigger stopped the shoes moving back under the pull-off springs. The free movement needed to release the shoes came from the gripping springs having a bit of slop in their holes. Magic.

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Guy King
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They're not...they need proper maintenance.

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Conor

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Wheras other sorts plough on for years with none.

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Guy King

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