Hey all,
Ok... so my brother's Corsa recently failed its MOT on the rear brakes. Brakes were nowhere near good enough at 10% efficiency and it had been sat around for about a year.
When they (testers) were under the car, checking it out, they lubricated a grommet where the cable travels through. They also did the same with the rear load-bearing valve as they said it was sticking and seizing up the brakes.
But it wasn't enough in the end. They suspected that when I drove down for the test, I may have glazed the shoes...
Now, I'm not much of a mechanic... but I busted out the Haynes manual and thought I'd have a go for drums, but I'm struggling to get them off...
I also looked here
http://www.allcorsa.co.uk/forums/showthread.php/replace-rear-brake-43573.html
Great tutorial, but I haven't been able to withdraw the drum by hand, the drum spins, but then catches after maybe half a rotation or so (I'll get a video up) and in the manual it says to slacken the adjuster that sits just above/in front of the rear axle. I tried this but it's now where I'm stuck.
I hold the cable guide bracket (where the rubber-sleeved handbrake cable goes) with mole grips and turn the 11mm nut, but what happens is that the threaded section behind the nut also turns and I was expecting the nut to move along this...
Anyone more experienced (almost everyone) with any advice I could try please? Or is the cable done?
NB. This is a Corsa 1.7d with 185k+ miles on...
Ok... so my brother's Corsa recently failed its MOT on the rear brakes. Brakes were nowhere near good enough at 10% efficiency and it had been sat around for about a year.
When they (testers) were under the car, checking it out, they lubricated a grommet where the cable travels through. They also did the same with the rear load-bearing valve as they said it was sticking and seizing up the brakes.
But it wasn't enough in the end. They suspected that when I drove down for the test, I may have glazed the shoes...
Now, I'm not much of a mechanic... but I busted out the Haynes manual and thought I'd have a go for drums, but I'm struggling to get them off...
I also looked here
http://www.allcorsa.co.uk/forums/showthread.php/replace-rear-brake-43573.html
Great tutorial, but I haven't been able to withdraw the drum by hand, the drum spins, but then catches after maybe half a rotation or so (I'll get a video up) and in the manual it says to slacken the adjuster that sits just above/in front of the rear axle. I tried this but it's now where I'm stuck.
I hold the cable guide bracket (where the rubber-sleeved handbrake cable goes) with mole grips and turn the 11mm nut, but what happens is that the threaded section behind the nut also turns and I was expecting the nut to move along this...
Anyone more experienced (almost everyone) with any advice I could try please? Or is the cable done?
NB. This is a Corsa 1.7d with 185k+ miles on...