[ROVERNET - UK] Rear Brakes(Jan Tilberg)

[Eric Russell]

Ben,
Sounds like, "In for a penny, in for a pound!"  :-(

Eric


--- Paul Smith <Paul.Smith at auroraenergy.com.au> wrote:

> Unfortunately you are at the point where you need to
> lie on the concrete under the calipers and listen
> while assistant pumps the pedal.
> No clicks (and they are fairly quiet) means no
> adjusting going on.
> I suspect you are about to join the ranks of those
> who remove rear calipers from P6s.
> 
> PVS
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rovernet-bounces at lyris.ccdata.com
> [mailto:rovernet-bounces at lyris.ccdata.com]On Behalf
> Of Ben Rodgers
> Sent: Friday, 25 May 2007 12:09 am
> To: rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com
> Subject: Re: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Rear Brakes(Jan
> Tilberg)
> 
> 
> Hi Roger
>              Well I'm really no further along than
> pumping the pedal and
> hoping it will eventually adjust the rear brakes.
> I'm attending a car show
> this week end so don't want to start dismantling
> anything before then. The
> brakes were overhauled just before I bought the car,
> the previous owner
> spent $1500 on the brake job.
> However I don't believe the mechanic was up on
> Rovers. For example he
> rebuilt both servos, new lines to the rear including
> flex hose, rebuilt rear
> calipers new discs and pads, new front rotors and
> pads. Yet the lines from
> the M/C to servos were very rusty and the M/C was
> leaking but not replaced,
> there was a new unit in the trunk??
> The hand brake didn't work and the owner was told it
> needed a missing part
> for the linkage. I haven't had a real close look yet
> but from what I see the
> linkage is fine. My bet is the two pins are either
> laying down or not there
> at all thats why no hand brake.
> The only good to come out of this expensive job is
> that everything is new
> and should be easy to dismantle etc.I have installed
> the M/C and new lines
> at the front so its just a matter of sorting out the
> rear calipers now (I
> hope)
>                                           Regards
> Ben.
> FREDERICK  (BEN) RODGERS.CD
> Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland,
> Author of "lily and me" a great book and a great
> read .
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> Visit my web page  http://home.netscape.ca/~rodgl/
> 
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