CitiCar Brake Help!!

[Henry Deaton <hdeaton@SURF.COM>]

I'm in the middle of putting the brakes back on my 1976 CitiCar, and for
the life of me I cannot figure out how the rear brake shoes go back on.
Although I should know way better, I took the brakes apart to have the
shoes relined last May, and then let it sit for 5 months. Now I don't have
a drawing or anything to go by. I've got three copies of the CitiCar
Service Manual, including NuKar's, but none of them show anything like my
rear brakes. My car has 8" drums while the manuals show the rear
CommutaCar's brakes which are 7" drums just like on the front.

My big problem (well, the most current problem right now) is that once I've
got the parking brake linkage set up in a way that looks like it should
work, there's no place to put the springs that came off the brakes? I
figured out the parking brake linkage by looking at an really old Clymer VW
manual and matching the wear marks on the brake shoes with the parking
brake pieces.

Unfortunately there's no tell-tale signs of where the two springs should
mount, and they don't fit (one's to short and one's too long) in the
obvious places.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd really like to hear them. And if anyone
has a CitiCar in the SF Bay Area that would let me look at the rear brakes,
that'd be great! Otherwise, I'm probably going to put holes in the brake
shoes myself and install the springs where they oughta be.

If I liked puzzles I'd really be enjoying this now,

Henry

CitiCar Brake Help!!