Make sure this spring has the center part of it positioned away from the hub or it will/may rub on the hub assembly like this using MM's diagram -===___________===-

Haha, I have felt like that a time or two myself!

Robster, where are you located, I'm bringing my trailer to pick it up. Unless you are pulling my chain! Email in profile.

Nothing was contradicted.

Right hand side of the car should have:

1) The wheel cylinder at the bottom

2) The "spade" as you call it should be at the bottom and towards the rear of the car. The spade on the other shoe will have the spade at the top and front of the car.

3) The spring that lookst like this -===--------===- Should be on the bottom

4) The spring that looks like this -----====----- Should be on the top.

If you can't understand this, then I just can't help you

ahhhhh !! now im confused!! different members gives different images, and now zippy said its going to squeek!!

grrrrr!! i cant take it anymore!!

Abelclasico,
Your "before" photo shows where the hub has been rubbing on your "bassackwards" spring. Did it make a nice squeeking noise?

Abel, you forgot to put the link to the pics

thanks in advance

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D.K. Lawson and I worked on my brakes last winter and I took plenty of pics. Here are a few that might help you,

cheers,

Abel

i notice each of your pictures are different, notice the spade looking hole , in haynes picture illustrates both spade hole are below,  but anyway i got it ok now, really appreciate your pics guys.

im alone noe so i did some redneck bleeding solutions .

lol...that's right. The pic zippy posted is upside down...( not his doing of course )

Be sure you take into account the orientation of that picture (which looks upside down compared to the rear of my mkIV car).

no its ok, i got it now,,, the smaller spring on top and the bigger bellow.

thats one thing i like about minis, little common sense is all you need to fix the problem..lol

... common sense is not in haynes table of contents, not even in index page.. lol

thanks guys, got it fix now..

the problem is nobody will pump the break for bleeding, wife is out of the country.. grrrrr!!  gotta call may buddy next door

Maybe you could refer to what you take apart. Assembly is the reverse of disassembly......

Don't get the top spring on bass-ackwards or the straight part will rub on the hub adding to the horrible noises you hear.

need help, wich one goes to the upper part of the brake  which one goes below?? thanks

.... So they are coming one by one..

All I can say is this is great material for a reality show, huh AirFair?

Id be frit of that 60,000 volts!!  Not uncommon to get ZAPPED by a Mini ignition while rummaging around trouble shooting in the engine compartment!   At our age (well most of us) that might be terminal, so to speak!

I'm always kind of befuddled at seeing "1100" and "performance" used together!   Well, without the word "poor" in the immediate vicinity!

Is it Spank?  Maybe we should have a poll thread.

We could ask Jemal to look it up

 Spit coffee all over my keyboard, thanks Mike

my priority now is to switch to electronic dizz and upgrade my clutch department.  Because when i step on the clutch pedal, i feel and hear grumbling noise and vibration. ..my commons sense dictates me that it must be the release bearing al rusted out inside., but first before i buy anything, i just wanna try some redneck solution first.  i wanna squirt some wd40 or sprayable oil thingie on the bearings, and see if it will improve.  

and oh btw, question, can i take the clutch cover out without removing the engine from the car?, the six or 8 bolts are accessible from the outside,might or might not be possible?  any input??, tomorrow is saturday, im gonna have sex with my mini again in the garage., im gonna clean the four brake pistons, replace old brake fluid ,recondition rubber seals etc. ( to recondition the rubber seals put them inside the freezer for 10 minutes, the molecules of the rubber will re-align and become tight again.

will post some pics and horizontal videos tomorrow.

stock alternator fine. when I get cars I change the points to electronic because I dont like points. old gm cars out come the points distributor in goes the hei. if you pull your stuff apart take a video of it so you forget where something goes you can watch the video