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Hey guys, we converted car to manual in the weekend, and having problems with brakes, after about 15mins driving, they started to heat up and the pedal was extremely hard, and the brakes had engaged to i would say around 70-80%!!!, i could smell them, luckily i managed to get home....only thing i could think would cause it(which i havent tested yet), is the adjustment of the pedal may need to be made??? as per the pic in the attachment (which i circled in yellow), does this sound right, we did play around with it when doing the conversion.

what i need to know, is what the default adjustment should be, or how do i know i have got it right?so that they are never engaged until i want them to be. What is this adjuster for any how, and how do i adjust it?

and whats the easiest way to test my brakes, without driving???, safety comes first

please help

thanks

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no pic.

should be able to rotate the rotors by hand when the pedal isn't being pressed. which brakes are engaging, front or rear or the handbrake shoes?

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You need to stand on your head in the driver's footwell. It is a pushrod, just like the one for the clutch. It will help having a torch to see what you are doing.

The difficult bit is the locknut on the rod.

As I suggested in your other thread, if there is no freeplay in the rod, then I'd be putting some serious money on it as the cause.

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