Thread: Are my brakes inadequate...

G'day All

I've been watching this thread out of pure interest. My understanding of the brakes on LandRovers before owning one was that they were crap.

My fender has 4 2 pot lockheed calipers on it with some very questionable solid disks.

They always seem to work extremely well.

I guess what I'm getting at is that after JC changed my rears (due to reaching thier wear limit) for DBA ventilated they still work extremely well.

The front disks I suspect are just about cactus and I'll also swop them for vented DBA's

If they work as well as they do at the moment I'l be a happpy man

Dave, I'd be interested in your thoughts/comments

Originally Posted by Offender90

OK, found out the reason my brakes weren't "working" so well... thought I would share it with all... errr... ummm... gulp.. there was no vacuum line going to the brake booster

Thanks for all the help.

Good on you for owning up - and thanks for letting us know the cause of the problem.

John

side note to this... (I cant remember IF ive mentioned it before but Its relevant to this thread)

IF you have a vacume actuated CDL on a diesel engine and that pipe gets disconnected or holed you will have exactly the same symptoms and you will have a CDL that wont change position to boot.

Split diaphragm will do it as well, but at least you should hear the air leak there.

2.8 ton LWB F100, driving quite fast, my turn off looms, press pedal, funny pop and sucky sound, "Oh dear not gonna stop in time".

It's good to know you found and fixed your problem.