Tiz's Minis

Tip No 4: When replacing the radius arm

Last year I had to replace one of the rear radius arms (also known as Trailing Arm) on the red mini. I brought a reconditioned radius arm from DSN Classics. The job was going smoothly until it came to reusing the Pivot Pin on the handbrake quadrant and the Clevis Pin which attatches the the handbrake cable to the drum brake. Both were in a pretty bad shape, I was just about able to reuse the Pivot Pin but I had to make my own replacement Clevis pin. It cost me an extra hour of my weekend sorting those two items out.

My advice is to budget for replacing these pins together with their split pin fasteners when you replace the arm. As you can see from DSN Classics these two items are not going to force you to remortgage the house!

posted by Andy Tyrrell @ 12:04 PM