The rear brake spring

I had problems fitting the rear brake spring once. It was loose and I tried to connect it to its hole with long-nose-pliers. Very difficult, too difficult for me. And which hole? Both springs of the brake pedal mechanism were not connected any more.

There are two holes to fit the end of the springs. How should it be done and which spring to which hole? I do not see an illustration in the Haynes or in the Yamaha manual.

The easy way is to take off the right aluminum plate that supports the footbrake pedal, passenger peg and silencer. Also disconnect the end nut of the brake rod at the rear wheel. The brake spring is fitted to the aluminum plate.

The spring of the rear brake is situated behind this aluminum plate.

This specimen is that of the sidecar XZ: the 30 mm ball is one of

the three balls that connect the XZ to the MZ sidecar.

The backside of this aluminum plate shows up in the next photograph below: the red arrow indicates the hole to which the spring of the brake light switch is connected. The spring of the rear brake pedal is fitted to the strongest of the two lips, the back one, in fact.

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Photograph that shows how the rear brake spring must be

fitted. The red arrow indicates the lid to which the spring

of the brake light switch is connected. It also shows the

way the sidecar connection ball is fitted to a large nut and

a steel reinforcement plate.