NavyDiver
19th January 2011, 01:32 PM
Driving to Port Fairy Friday afternoon. Three kids in the back and Boat behind:). Noticed a light shuddering which started suddenly while on the Geelong freeway and assumed a blown tire on the trailer. Stopped and checked the trailer tires and bearings and found nothing wrong. Both rear wheels/rims on the D3 were hot:(. I had asked AMV ringwood to look at the parking brakes while servicing it after two warnings. Greg at AMV said his lads had blown off or cleaned the brakes up a little.
Took of a wheel to see what I could see. Being both dark and rather busy beside the freeway at 9pm, I could not see how to adjust the brakes or anything notable. On the wheel I had off drum was spinning but seemed to be catching a little on the now cool brake drum at one point. I had chocked all wheels and had the car in neutral before rotating the hub. Called the RACV- what a waste of time. 2 hours later RACV turned up had said he was very wary of jacking up Landrovers and wanted to tow it! Useless!:mad:
While waiting for him I had reread the manual. I discussed the parking brake manual release and showed RACV where it was. He tried with pliers, I showed him how to do it using a lever! As he was too scared to jack up the D3 the only check he could recommend was drive it:mad::mad::mad:. The brakes remained cool when I checked in Geelong and Colac. Shuddering occurred again before Camperdown. I manually released the parking brake again checked again every 50kms. Got to Port Fairy at 3am. 12 hours for a 3 hour drive.
Rang AMV in the morning and Greg told me how to adjust the parking brakes. Found the adjustment at 6am on the hub on one side and 1am on the other side. Tighten up then back of three turns and problem fixed.
Greg said his staff had not adjusted the brakes. He mentioned other reports of the electronic parking brake not releasing fully? Anyone else seen this? Why did it occur when no adjsutment had been made to the brakes other than the cleaning. Greg mentioned it is a know problem?
TDV6 kindly put how to adjust your brakes (http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/topic25409.html) up in another similar post
Took of a wheel to see what I could see. Being both dark and rather busy beside the freeway at 9pm, I could not see how to adjust the brakes or anything notable. On the wheel I had off drum was spinning but seemed to be catching a little on the now cool brake drum at one point. I had chocked all wheels and had the car in neutral before rotating the hub. Called the RACV- what a waste of time. 2 hours later RACV turned up had said he was very wary of jacking up Landrovers and wanted to tow it! Useless!:mad:
While waiting for him I had reread the manual. I discussed the parking brake manual release and showed RACV where it was. He tried with pliers, I showed him how to do it using a lever! As he was too scared to jack up the D3 the only check he could recommend was drive it:mad::mad::mad:. The brakes remained cool when I checked in Geelong and Colac. Shuddering occurred again before Camperdown. I manually released the parking brake again checked again every 50kms. Got to Port Fairy at 3am. 12 hours for a 3 hour drive.
Rang AMV in the morning and Greg told me how to adjust the parking brakes. Found the adjustment at 6am on the hub on one side and 1am on the other side. Tighten up then back of three turns and problem fixed.
Greg said his staff had not adjusted the brakes. He mentioned other reports of the electronic parking brake not releasing fully? Anyone else seen this? Why did it occur when no adjsutment had been made to the brakes other than the cleaning. Greg mentioned it is a know problem?
TDV6 kindly put how to adjust your brakes (http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/topic25409.html) up in another similar post