Hi all, I found, as a relatively new A7 owner, that on my first decent drive, applying the brakes sternly caused a massive dive to the left. I ascertained that there was grease on the brake shoes from, I guess, copious enthusiastic greasing. Now as I say, as a new Austin owner, never having rebuilt Austin brakes before, I find that Mr Doug Woodrow in his otherwise excellent manual glibly states "Remove the split pins through the hole provided in hub" (page F2-2). Oh really. The holes may be adequate when inserting the pins, but when extracting them it seems damned (oops) near impossible. Even with pounding on a tiny screwdriver not designed for such treatment, I can't get it to budge in an upwards and outwards direction. In my younger and more enthusiastic days, and with 50 year younger axles and whatnot, I would just unwind the nut and shear the pin. (That was on prewar Fords incidentally.) Would that be permissible behaviour today, by chance, by someone growing as frustrated as I? I really need to get these hubs and backing plates off. Thanks for any assistance, even if from afar.
Cheers, Geoffrey