I have been trying to get my back end sorted.
I made up some mounts to get the panhard rod in the 'ideal' place and they get in the way of the handbrake cables.
My question is, can i swap the full brake assembly on each side of the car over?
This would mean the handbrake cable lever would be between the trailing arms and away from the panhard rod.
I dont see why not although i may be missing something.
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Drum brakes are often designed with differing mounting geometry of the 'leading' and 'trailing' shoes to account for the opposite
direction of the reaction forces under braking. i.e under braking the rear shoe is forced upward and the front shoe forced downwards.
This may or may not be the case on your brakes though.
Hi try running the cable infront of the p/rod mounting bracket. It will then be pulling the leaver in the right direction. Most using the alegro cable
mount the threaded end on a brkt just of the rear of the axle brkt for the links.
HTH cheers Matt
matt_claydon has it dead right.
The brake geometry/effectiveness is calculated based upon the relative positions of the leading and trailing shoe.
The handbrake lever is always on the trailing shoe - if you swop them from side to side it will end up on the leading shoe. Buggering up the geometry,
affecting the way the brakes work on both the foot brake and handbrake and also increasing shoe wear.
So don't do it - it's more trouble than it's worth 
[Edited on 7/11/07 by JAG]
that looks like mk2 escort axle + brakes, frivers side.
pretty sure it should have the lever on the revers side, not the front as you have it - look like you have go the two backaplates on the wrong
side.
And about this leading training shoe stuff - if you have one brake cylinder, then you will have one of each shoe so I am not sure if the argument ^^^^
holds valid.
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Originally posted by 02GF74
that looks like mk2 escort axle + brakes, frivers side.
pretty sure it should have the lever on the revers side, not the front as you have it - look like you have go the two backaplates on the wrong side.
And about this leading training shoe stuff - if you have one brake cylinder, then you will have one of each shoe so I am not sure if the argument ^^^^ holds valid.
You can turn the back plates through a few degrees & redrill the holes.
Accuracy required isn't great but you will need to make some kind of jig.
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Originally posted by emsfactory
The lever is to the rear. They do only have one cylinder per side.