Help,

What’s the trick to getting the clips on the rear brake shoes, tried the ram the clip on with pliers having compressed it but not working or I got the wrong type of pliers. Can’t get the clip flat enough once compressed to slide it on

Must have been done so many times by so many people there must be an easy way

Please tell me what it is

Thanks

One way is to push the longer clip prongs on the rod and push the two prongs down with a large screwdriver, with the other hand using another screwdriver or small hammer tap the clip home

Thanks for advice, got one on so far so three to go. Although the lower ones that you can’t push from behind I think are going to be very frustrating ☹️

I found the easiest way is to wedge the pin part from behind the hub, using an appropriate sized chisel, then you have 2 hands to use a pair of pliers etc to manoeuvre the clip on. It's pretty easy as you have the maximum pin length available so you don't have to compress the clip too much. Good luck

Bigbangman wrote:

Thanks for advice, got one on so far so three to go. Although the lower ones that you can’t push from behind I think are going to be very frustrating ☹️

I used one of these

https://www.eurocarparts.com/p/amtech-door...gI7EPD_BwE

Got the idea from YouTube as someone on there used it to press down on top of the clip and leaves room to slot in. I was trying everything and struggling until this.

Interesting 😁

Do you have the link to the YouTube video so I can see how they did it.

Thanks

All done, thanks for suggestions, combination of pliers and one needed pushing down with large screwdriver whilst someone knocked it in. Not a pleasurable job !!

Once you have the knack it's easy

Good you managed it. Couldn’t find the YouTube clip, but easy to do with the tool and one person only. I’ll keep searching for it and post it somewhere here for future reference for everyone.