Yesterday, 09:51 AM
Going back to my last post, the problem was with the offside (UK driver side) rear brake.
Handbrake adjusted ok with equal tension (lock) on both rear wheels.
Ignore front wheels for now, but when the footbrake was applied (hard) you could feel the pedal
drop a little. Wedging the footbrake (with homemade adjuster) the rear nearside brake
was hard on, but the offside was not. Same with the handbrake.
Adjust back so both working on handbrake, apply footbrake hard and back to the problem again.
Well, the problem was the rear offside cable adjuster on the end of the cable. Tighten
it as much as you dare and it still slipped when the footbrake was applied. This was one
of a pair of new cables supplied by one of the cherished suppliers, one appears good,
the other maybe not.
Had the adjuster off the cable and can see nothing wrong with it. Back on and same
problem, so swapped it for the old adjuster taken off the car earlier and this works
perfectly even when you stand on the foot brake as hard as you dare.
So as I said earlier, never seen this before and it had me very confused until I put a small
mark on the cable so I could go back to the 'adjust' point quicker and the mark moved !.
Brakes now 'close' to roadworthy, but still got the balance front to rear to setup, but
really needs to be on the road for final setting.
Today, 45MPH Northerly winds with rain/sleet, so not today !.
Martin.
Handbrake adjusted ok with equal tension (lock) on both rear wheels.
Ignore front wheels for now, but when the footbrake was applied (hard) you could feel the pedal
drop a little. Wedging the footbrake (with homemade adjuster) the rear nearside brake
was hard on, but the offside was not. Same with the handbrake.
Adjust back so both working on handbrake, apply footbrake hard and back to the problem again.
Well, the problem was the rear offside cable adjuster on the end of the cable. Tighten
it as much as you dare and it still slipped when the footbrake was applied. This was one
of a pair of new cables supplied by one of the cherished suppliers, one appears good,
the other maybe not.
Had the adjuster off the cable and can see nothing wrong with it. Back on and same
problem, so swapped it for the old adjuster taken off the car earlier and this works
perfectly even when you stand on the foot brake as hard as you dare.
So as I said earlier, never seen this before and it had me very confused until I put a small
mark on the cable so I could go back to the 'adjust' point quicker and the mark moved !.
Brakes now 'close' to roadworthy, but still got the balance front to rear to setup, but
really needs to be on the road for final setting.
Today, 45MPH Northerly winds with rain/sleet, so not today !.
Martin.