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"You'll see that it has kind of a stay rod at the bottom of the brake drum on the right side, comes out with a rusty number 12 . Keep the nut and rubber & metal washers aside ."
But after reading your description i understood what u've done
I do this when i feel like brake pads have become hardened or bung.

Nice job, keep it up!

But instead of carb cleaner, degreaser will do the nice job.

Patience my dear Watson . The post was too long to complete in one go , completed now -- please check and see if you can read all and see all pics now and confirm . Else I have to correct it .

hmm...cool
I've come to know a new thing, that in your splendor both rear and front brake shoes have different design, rear one have longer spring and front one have small type spring. Hence, if one wish brake pads cannot be interchange.
Whereas, in my bike front brake shoes have same design and spring as rear one.
Every time when i buy a pads, retailer must ask me, do u want for the rear or for the front one?
And i was always thinking in my mind that why they ask such if both are of same type and can be fitted anywhere.
Now i understood

I always tried to look for the difference but i found nothing!
experts put some light on this. maybe i'm wrong.

awesome DIY Pinaki ji.. just when i was in need. BTW, all drum brakes can serviced following your post na? you could have posted it in DIY thread. looking for specific info/service in ownership threads are little troublesome. just my thought..older bikes had 110mm brakes both front and rear. but newer bikes have 130mm front and 110mm rear..

Thanks , you are right , could have posted in the DIY thread , but I am not sure if this qualifies as one . Moreover I wanted all things about the Splendor to be available in one place . Anyway , yes .. since drum brake is so primitive and simple mechanical device , if you do one you can do it on any bike that has it . Infact many of the drum brake parts would be interchangebale between bike makes . No variation in service .

No you are corrected now . Your's is 110mm on both ends , hence same parts . Later models like Splendor+ have 130mm in front and 110mm at rear . My Yamaha Crux/Rx100/Rx135 had 130mm drums both front and rear , much better braking .... . Once my rear drum wears out I'll replace it with 130mm rear hub et al , I think the Super-Splendor has 130 on rear . I have to ride through busy on-the-street markets and pedestrian,cycle-rickshaw,auto-rickshaw,bycycle congested wet roads with sharp speed-breakers every 100 meters I think ... I really need sharp brakes which do not fade , day in and out . To save those kids who run into my path playing every now and then atleast .

@Pinaki
Excellent narration and pictures.

I noticed that your splendor has Different bolt head size of the axles.In my splendor the rear axle take #14 and #17 spanner.
Please add few points to make it more comprehensive.
Some models have a screw which holds the speedo cable.
If one does not have the time to clean and lubricate speedo worm gear then replace it with metal gears.
Always lubricate the axles before fitting.
Putting a suitably sized stool(chowki) below the engine frame to support the front end is a good idea.
Lubricate the front brake cable while the adjusting nut is removed.
Also check the dampener rubber for any damage(Rear wheel).

stunned and shocked

@pinaki- Amazing post on brake service. I was thinking to post as today i serviced my joy's brake but you posted which relieved my load.
As always it is quite good explanation, particularly the process of explaining how to open the parts as an amateur can do all the work without any help. Thumps up for the work.

@paul- I forgot to mention that the photos you posted of your bike is amazing and also it was kind of you to mention that i inspired you.
It feels good if somebody is inspired from me to do good work. Do not worry slowly i will make you an expert in bikes.But seriously your bike was looking too good.
And about you mentioning the brakes CD 100 deluxe, joy, Cd dawn always came with both small drums.
CD 100 SS, splendor, passion(till 2006),DAWN, CD deluxe and CD dawn(new model)all come with bigger front drum and smaller rear drum.
Passion(after 2006), super splendor, glamor, CBZ,hunk,karizma,extreme, ambition all came with bigger rear drum and bigger front drum or disc whichever is applicable.
On my joy after nearly 3.2 lac km my front drum is showing signs of wearing out. I will change to bigger drum of splendor+, and will post here.

Now i am coming to the title of the post:-
As you all know that our splendor+ was stolen and so my father was taking my joy to bank.I was taking my extreme to work place. So for 3 days i was not able to ride my joy. On sunday morning i had to go to my aunt's house to drop my cousin sisters and they unlike me are not tall. So i took my joy as father will go to bank at late on sunday.
Winters are already making its presence feel here now.So i went to my aunt house and dropped my sisters and after one hour returned.

Since it was only 8:30 in morning along with winter and being sunday the road was deserted. On the way 5 km is NH 5 and after riding the extreme for 3 days i was enjoying the smoothness of my joy. Seeing the NH deserted i started to twist the accelerator. Being the climate cool the bike responded well and picked up speed with urgency. I stopped and half throttle and the bike gathered 95 kph in 500m. Remember i was in half throttle and bike was at 95 kph and rock steady.
Suddenly i heard a roaring sound and saw in RVM that a P220 was charging rapidly towards me. As he overtook from my left he looked at my speedo and then you have to see the look on his face. His face had both the look of stunned and shocked at one time. He slowed a little and once again confirmed by looking at my speedo and then his speedo.
I think he was stunned because:-
1. He was ripping to overtake me but he wouldn't have thought a hero honda 100 cc to be at near 100 kph.
2. Since he was overtaking from left he would be seeing 95 as 100 due to parallax error.
3. Third being a orissa guy he would have easily deduced from number that the bike is 12 years old and thus would have become surprised, because 90% of people think that as bike gets old performance deteriorates.

I laughed loud in my helmet because:-
1. His expression was to be liable to be made a poster
2. I was half throttle and if it would have been full throttle then i think he would have lost his senses.
3. My old bike can still give surprises after so many years.

I tried posting in morning but the server problem crashed it.

Ok, enough of talk as it is now time to go to the gym.

Bold replies!

Thanks thanks for the info!

Wah Engineer sahib
lol on that pulsar guy made me laugh too ....cool

My 2002 model,18k run splendor can do 90 easily.Can go even better I think,but no good roads!

my reply in bold,
No offence buddy but seems you are exaggerating a little..

No offense taken but i am not exaggerating even a little. I didn't say that he was ripping at 100 kph. But he was at 120 or more and just as he was passing he slowed down to see my speedo. I didn't say that he was ripping to overtake me at 100 kph.I had clearly mentioned that he was gaining rapidly in my RVM and if he would have been at 100 kph then how would he gain rapidly when i am at almost same speed. he must have at least 20 kph more than me.
Yes, half throttle at 95 kph is possible, but i didn't say at full throttle it will pass a P220.
At full throttle maximum is 110 kph. Now after half throttle maximum power is consumed in cutting through wind and fitting internal friction. A bike at half throttle if reaches 95 kph doesn't means he will reach 190 at full throttle.My bike always reaches 85-90 at half throttle and after that it touches 110 on full throttle.
And regarding old bike then let me inform you that my old bike is much well maintained than 90% of so called new bikes.

And regarding star city it has a 110cc engine and a vertical engine.

Thanks , but I knew you and Sibun can always find 101 faults with my clumsy work ... , shall try to update it later , promise .

Thanks Engineer sahib .

@ Engineer sibun
One day when i went to ASC to buy some parts, i look over the spare parts catalog so that i can show/tell the other person to exactly what i need.
When i was going through the catalog i saw a washer is there between a valve guide & a spring. You know what i mean, before inserting a spring a washer is inserted first.
But at the time of DE-carbonizing i found NO washer. And at that time i didn't even know that washer should be there because I opened it first time.
And when everything is completed, DE-carbonization done, I saw after that.
So this made me little confuse. If u pls clear me!

Yes there are washers below both the springs.(One below intake spring and other below exhaust spring) Usually it is stuck to the head but if it comes out for some reason and you don't put it back then the spring will eat away the soft aluminum head !!!
Use a very thin flat screwdriver to remove it.

I dont know it was there or not. I dont even know & therefore haven't removed. Who is gonna open it now.
If it eat, there would be particles all around the head, but its clean.
As far as i remember the spring surface level was about 1 mm down to the surface level of head.