Thread: handbrake

Most likely either one shoe has seized in position, a spring is broken, or there is a lot of foreign material (most likely oil from a leaking seal) in the brake that happens to affect one shoe and not the other (or some combination of these). Note that small amounts of oil will cause the shoe to grab rather than slip.

I would be inclined to remove the drum and see what is going on. On most Landrovers this can be done without removing the prop shaft, and I think this is the case for the D1.

John

Nah, you've gotta remove the tailshaft...

so remove the tail shaft to get to the drum handbrake?
cheers

Have a look - it should be obvious whether you need to. I am not familiar with Discoveries, but most other Landrovers you can simply slide the drum back along the shaft after undoing the nuts holding it on (and of course releasing the brake and slacking off the adjuster). You can't completely remove the drum this way, but you should be able to work out what the problem is.

John