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  1. 23rd September 2012, 09:54 PM #1
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    stones,brake backing plates. 4wding.

    Hello all
    finally after 11months of ownership we finally had our d4 off the bitumen today. We were impressed, the 3.0 litre is brilliant.
    Went well except we kept getting stones caught between the disc and the backing plate. The d4 i was with had no issues.
    Has anyone else had this occur, it drove us nuts.
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  2. 23rd September 2012, 10:46 PM #2
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    Always been one of the first things I've done. If you want to be extreme, remove your drum brake backing plates.
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  3. 24th September 2012, 07:32 AM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by clubagreenie View Post
    Always been one of the first things I've done. If you want to be extreme, remove your drum brake backing plates.
    This is something I haven't heard of ... could you give us more information please
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    Quote Originally Posted by oldsalt View Post
    This is something I haven't heard of ... could you give us more information please
    Yes very interesting, I've never heard of a D4 with drum brakes (the hand doesn't count) my D4 has disc brakes and so did my D2.

    baldivistribe, I'd say you were just unlucky, we have our D4 offroad quite a bit and only had this problem once or twice.

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    Picture drum brakes, now picture removing the backing plates and keep them working....
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  6. 24th September 2012, 10:33 AM #6
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    club a greenie,

    Think about what you wrote.
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    I think he means the hand break drum backing plate. D4 (probably D3 too) do not have a central drum hand break. Instead they have mini drum breaks built into each wheel actuated when the hand break is pulled on. I have had small sticks caught inside one hand brake drum housing. They make a hell of a whining noise.

    Didn't know you can remove the backing plate though.
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    I know what I wrote. Removing the baking plate is about as extreme as proning out n a body board.
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  9. 24th September 2012, 05:45 PM #9
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    Original question:

    Quote Originally Posted by baldivistribe View Post
    Hello all
    finally after 11months of ownership we finally had our d4 off the bitumen today. We were impressed, the 3.0 litre is brilliant.
    Went well except we kept getting stones caught between the disc and the backing plate. The d4 i was with had no issues.
    Has anyone else had this occur, it drove us nuts.
    Cheers
    steve
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    Quote Originally Posted by clubagreenie View Post
    Always been one of the first things I've done. If you want to be extreme, remove your drum brake backing plates.
    Quote Originally Posted by clubagreenie View Post
    Picture drum brakes, now picture removing the backing plates and keep them working....
    D3/4 has disk brakes, the question was about disk brakes. So WTF?

    Clubagreenie replies:

    Quote Originally Posted by clubagreenie View Post
    I know what I wrote. Removing the baking plate is about as extreme as proning out n a body board.
    (sic)

    If he is saying that the backing plate of the EPB drums can be removed to solve the EPB issues with mud it is a differnt issue but I would like to know more if that is the case.
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  10. 24th September 2012, 06:39 PM #10
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    I have seen removing the backing plates from the brakes (discs) being discussed on UK forums before, with consensus that the backing plate really serves very little purpose other than to catch stones in. It is supposed to protect the discs from these same stone, which once caught pose more risk. Me, I haven't had any stones caught so am not going down this road but, if circumstances changed, would consider it.
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