Series 3 Brakes

[Phoenix]

Ok, after finally stopping the brakes pulling left because of oil on the pads on the front left wheel (replaced the oil seal) it is now heavily pulling to the left.

It only started last night, and this morning when I pulled up on some gravel at my parents place, the LH Front wheel locked up very easily. Now i've adjusted and bled all of the brakes recently, and re greased the front bearings (and replaced one as some of you know ops: ), so what could be causing this????

Have I messed up bleeding the brakes, I did have some trouble bleeding that wheel, is that my problem? (I had trouble loosening the nut, I think I bled it anyway 8O )

[101RRS]

Is the brake pad adjustment mechanism too tight on the locking wheel - or alternatively too loose on the other wheels?

Gazzz

[Phoenix]

They are all pretty even, and the wheel isn't heating up, so no dragging brake. Locking the wheel so easily is a worry, I hope it stays dry for the moment, it could be interesting on a wet greasy road 8O

[Hellspawn]

Double check your wheel cylinders.

[shaunp]

I'm doing a series 3 tomorrow, it had the brakes done 5 years back with all new cylinders, when I pulled it a part yesterday the 2 of the front cyl were siezed 2 were leaking as were bothe rears. The owner paid $1500 for the last rebuild.

[Phoenix]

Believe it or not, but the next day I drove it, it did it for the first 1/2 of the trip, tehn stopped (ie was normal) and has been fine since. All I can think of is that it siesed and is now free again [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

[Hellspawn]

In my experience something automotive that seizes then frees itself is not good, more likely it was just a little residual oil on the drum.

[Phoenix]

could have been, there was a lot of oil and muck in there from the leaking seal. it's coming apart again soon to put an overhaul kit through the avm hubs, so I can check things out then.

[Phoenix]

For those watching, I took the drum off to have a look on the weekend while I put an overhaul kit through my AVM hobs, and guess what I found ops:

Leftover from my wheel bearing failure incident (the wheel fell off) I found a roller bearing floating around the drum, probably wasn't doing it much good ops: ops:

[River]

ouch 8O