Repair kit for vehicular brake slack adjuster
OwnerTerry Olsoninventor
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Abstract
A repair kit for a vehicle brake slack adjuster provides C-shaped reinforcement plates that may be clamped on opposite sides of a damaged stabilizer anchor tab to repair the same without removal of the slack adjuster.
Claims14
A repair kit for a slack adjuster communicating with brake pads to provide for automatic slack adjustment of vehicular brakes, the slack adjuster being of a type having a body fitting about a rotatable brake actuation shaft, the slack adjuster having a radially extending anchor tab with an orifice for receiving a stationary locator pin, the repair kit comprising:
- a first and second C-shaped element, the C-shaped elements defining a slot having a width corresponding to a width of the locator pin, each C-shaped element having opposable faces, at least one face including a locator element extending from the face to align the face with the anchor tab when the face is placed against the anchor tab;
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- clamp elements allowing compression of the C-shaped elements together so that their faces contact corresponding opposed faces of the anchor tab with the locator element aligning the slot with the orifice;
- whereby the C-shaped elements may be installed on either side of the anchor tab without removing the slack adjuster from the locator pin and as clamped onto the anchor tab may receive force from the locator pin to reinforce the anchor tab.
A method of repairing a slack adjuster actuating brake pads to provide for automatic slack adjustment of vehicular brakes, the slack adjuster being of a type having a body supported by a rotatable shaft actuating the brakes, the slack adjuster having a radially extending anchor tab with an orifice for receiving a locator pin extending generally parallel to the shaft, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) without removing the slack adjuster anchor tab from the locator pin, fitting a first and second C-shaped element about the anchor tab and locator pin, the C-shaped defining a slot having a width corresponding to a width of the locator pin, each C-shaped element having opposable faces, at least one face including a locator element extending from the face to align the face with the anchor tab when the face is placed against the anchor tab;
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- (b) clamping the first and second C-shaped element together so that their faces contact corresponding opposed faces of the anchor tab with the locator element aligning the slot with the orifice;
- whereby the C-shaped elements may be installed on either side of the anchor tab without removing the slack adjuster from the locator pin and as clamped onto the anchor tab may receive force from the locator pin to reinforce the anchor tab.
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