Thread: Brake problems

As some of you will remember, last week the 2a spent several hours bogged to the top of the wheels in a creek.

This has resulted in a few problems. The first one was the need to pull the starter off and clean the pinion shaft thread.

As part of my preparation for Cooma, I ran it into the shed to check, fully expecting to find water in the axles (I did, and the front has been drained and refilled, rear probably tomorrow).

I planned to pull the drums off and clean any sand out, as the brakes sounded gritty. What I did not expect to find was that the right hand drum was packed full of sand - every bit of space in the drum was packed with sand, and the lining was just about down to metal on one shoe. Left hand had a lot less sand, but the linings still pretty worn. (I haven't looked at the back yet).

Given the short time to Cooma, this presented a problem, but I managed to find a set of very good shoes on one of my rolling sets of spares, and have fitted these.

I am not sure why the right side was a lot worse, unless it was that it was the upstream side.

Tomorrow I will be working backwards from the front axle checking things. First order is to replace the boot on the front prop shaft, then check gearbox, overdrive and transfer case - I don't expect water in them as the water did not get high enough.

John

Originally Posted by DEFENDERZOOK

make sure you are carrying a wheel cylinder or two and some brake fluid for your trip.......
if there is any grit got into the seals on these......they will soon wear out the seals and score the cylinders......

methinks.........

Thanks - I pulled the boots off the cylinders - when I installed them (a couple of years ago) I packed them with rubber grease, and this seems to have kept the muck out.

John