Rear Disc/drum Removal

[steve2006]

As my parking brake efficiency was only 17% and the minimum for the MOT is 16% I decided to sort it this afternoon.

I have the service manual on CD ROM but there is amongst others a good tutorial on lexls.com for replacing the rear discs.

It was when I got to the actual removal with a hammer as suggested in the tutorial I stopped and had a think, the discs are still serviceable and hitting them with a hammer wasn't the ideal method.

A closer look revealed 2 threaded holes in the disc and after finding a couple of suitable bolts with a 12mm head I inserted them slowly and evenly tightened them and the disc popped straight off.

So if you have the same job don't use the hammer method as suggested.

[The-Acre]

As my parking brake efficiency was only 17% and the minimum for the MOT is 16% I decided to sort it this afternoon.

I have the service manual on CD ROM but there is amongst others a good tutorial on lexls.com for replacing the rear discs.

It was when I got to the actual removal with a hammer as suggested in the tutorial I stopped and had a think, the discs are still serviceable and hitting them with a hammer wasn't the ideal method.

A closer look revealed 2 threaded holes in the disc and after finding a couple of suitable bolts with a 12mm head I inserted them slowly and evenly tightened them and the disc popped straight off.

So if you have the same job don't use the hammer method as suggested.

Like it and mentally noted!

[steve2006]

It was quite a straightforward job, the disc retaining screws actually came out with a good screwdriver which is pretty good considering I had never removed the discs before.

The actual brake shoes were still within wear limits so I used some brake cleaner and a brush to clean all the accumulated dust out, once this was removed all the springs, fastenings and adjuster still all looked new, even the springs still had factory purple paint on them so I didn't disassemble further just rubbed the friction surfaces with some emery cloth wearing a dust mask and smeared some copper grease on the contact points with a screwdriver tip.

The drum face was quite rusty and it was apparent the full shoe surface was not making contact, given the fact that the parking brake is either on or off I can understand the wear pattern. I got my rotary wire brush in the drill and cleaned off all the rust leaving a much smoother surface.

After refitting the drum I moved the adjuster until the drum locked then backed it off a coulple of teeth until it was free, if you flick the adjuster wheel up this pushes the shoes out and vice versa.

Before servicing the pedal did around 7 clicks before it stopped, it now does 3 so looking good.

I'm not going to have it rechecked but should be fine for the next MOT.