Shannon Boal
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So, my parking brake works, my rear brakes work, and my self-adjusters work. Most of the problems seemed, to me, to be poor manufacturing.
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And then, I find that the shoes foul the brake lever. These shoes were on the car before I got it.... I ground away 1/4" of material around the parking brake/self-adjusting lever... My guess is that Dad got the wrong shoes.
Hard to beat that, might be simpler than making the factory mounted self-adjusting units work!Rear disc will fix that
Very, very nice work on that conversion!Hard to beat that, might be simpler than making the factory mounted self-adjusting units work!
Is there any need for a disc brake splash shield? Is that needed for snow?Our friend Bill Blue was instrumental in the development of the rear disc brakes that I am running on all my Alpines.
One of the many "Best" improvements I have been able to accomplish
New self adjuster brake parts are available from Guestie’s garage he is an MGC parts guy!Have finished the rear brakes.....far more trouble to fix the self-adjusting feature than it is worth. Biggest things...the wheel cylinders have to move freely, slide with finger pressure in the backing plate. I filed burrs off the wheel cylinders and backing plates. I stoned burrs off the horseshoe clips. Furthermore, the levers have to hit the star wheel, mine were both bent. I straightened one, but broke the other!... I made a fixture and precision-welded the lever with nickel-silver-bronze alloy. The star wheel teeth were worn flat, I filed those and the lever edge nice and sharp. The star wheels did not fit in the wheel cylinder bores, one too tight, one too loose....I cleaned up the tight spots with a tiny scraper, and made a tiny spiral shim for the other, cut out of a beer can....
Good to know....the parts that had to be finished, stoned, scraped and shimmed; were new parts! Quality control was.... spotty.New self adjuster brake parts are available from Guestie’s garage he is an MGC parts guy!
Jay think the issue is with the SV self adjusting rear drums. Dan has a conversion to replace them with a disc setupIf you read the book The Classic Sunbeam, McGovern indicates that Rootes was instrumental in helping Girling figure out why the disc brakes were burning through pads. And the solution was the correct configuration for the splash shield. So I would not rush to remove one or use one different than stock.
And I ran them for tens of thousands of miles and never saw any wear issues.Jay think the issue is with the SV self adjusting rear drums. Dan has a conversion to replace them with a disc setup