brake problem found

[96terrano]

hi guys, i found the problem with the brakes fail light you may remember me moaning about in another thread:augie

i topped the system up with GM's DOT4 and light went out, then i thought, crap, this means there's a leak somwere......and i think i know where:sly


a looked at front brakes inside out, they are ok, work well to:thumbs

BUT:doh


the rear drums have always been crap from when i got the truck, i while back, i took off the drums and lightly sanded the pads and cleaned the inside, helped a bit, anyway a had a look unterneath and the brake drums have been leaking, as the fluid has ate things:doh, new cylinders and innards i think

 

[makeitfit]

Naughty naughty, you said levels were ok :doh
Good luck with the fix and don't put the brake shoes in the oven to dry off either :augie I did and the wife came home to a lovely roast brake fluid smell in the kitchen oops..............I got a bllocking

 

[dollywobbler]

Have just had to change a wheel cylinder on mine. Should have changed both of them when the first one started leaking a couple of months ago! The fluid makes a right mess of the alloy wheels. Easy job though.

 

[96terrano]

Naughty naughty, you said levels were ok

i know, i didn't look well enough:doh

 

[96terrano]

had a look on flebay and it's gonna cost me £60 for 2 cylinder, and that's before i get new shoes:doh

 

[dollywobbler]

Pretty sure I got a pair from Milners for less than that. How low are the shoes? If they've had a soaking in brake fluid, just soak them in brake cleaner, let them dry and bosh them back in - or to make life even easier, don't remove them at all. Believe me - life is much easier if you don't remove them! Getting them back in as fiddly pain in the arse.

 

[spiderpig37]

Naughty naughty, you said levels were ok :doh
Good luck with the fix and don't put the brake shoes in the oven to dry off either :augie I did and the wife came home to a lovely roast brake fluid smell in the kitchen oops..............I got a bllocking

Put two disco wheel swivels in the dish washer once whilst missis was on nights she came home early oopsu

 

[makeitfit]

Put two disco wheel swivels in the dish washer once whilst missis was on nights she came home early oopsu

How does it happen damn wives second sense :lol

 

[zippy656]

How does it happen damn wives second sense :lol

Ive cought out a few time

 

[96terrano]

i don't have a women:doh...............yet:sly but i annoyed my mum once when she was at work, a friend and i were stripping my red terrano's interior and i had a entire SE interior in our living room:augie, it's fitted in my truck now lol but me room is still full of T2

 

[96terrano]

Pretty sure I got a pair from Milners for less than that. How low are the shoes? If they've had a soaking in brake fluid, just soak them in brake cleaner, let them dry and bosh them back in - or to make life even easier, don't remove them at all. Believe me - life is much easier if you don't remove them! Getting them back in as fiddly pain in the arse.

i don't think they were that worn, but honestly can't remember, and yes, i've rebuilt drums on a metro and all i can say is who ever invented them should by shot:augie

:bow:bowdisc brakes are the wa to go:bow:bow

 

[96terrano]

who ever invented them should by shot:augie

i mean this for the drums & metros:lol:lol