Rear Brakes Help Required.
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sdbutler10
Senior Member
its a wind back caliper which is the problem the only way we do it at work is to remove wheel give cailper a wack as u said and remove it and clean it up and lub all te right places and should not happen again.
sdbutler10
Senior Member
no problem only reason for quick responce as i just got home from work now diein of man flu lol.
its not that bad to stripdown just winding the caiper back can be a right tw@t at times.
its not that bad to stripdown just winding the caiper back can be a right tw@t at times.
Well, what a b*****d!!
Job done now. It would appear that the handbrake cable had frozen. Anyway, it took me 40 minutes just to remove the wheel. The wheel was seized to the hub for starters. It was -2`C and I was on the floor under the car with a lump hammer and a block of wood bashing 10 bells of s**t out of the wheel. I then tried letting the car down off the jack without the bolts in and rocking the car side to side. That didn't work, so I went back to bashing the wheel from the underside again. Eventually the wheel started to move off the hub and away it came. I gave the hub and the inside of the wheel a quick blast with some wet & dry. Then I set about the hub and callpier with a mallet. Nothing! So as I was starting to freesze my bollocks off, I got the fan heater out the garage and sat it next to me and the hub. Within about 5 minutes the disc spun free on its own. I noticed a lot of wet around the rear of the disc guard. This is probably down to me washing the car a few days ago and it hasn't had chance to dry out since. So, all done now.
Thing is now, Chris had to borrow MY CAR to take Lauren to the doctors this morning. This is the first time that she's driven the car since the SC. She came home later with that stupid grin and wants to go out in it again now!! Marvellous!! pmsl..
Job done now. It would appear that the handbrake cable had frozen. Anyway, it took me 40 minutes just to remove the wheel. The wheel was seized to the hub for starters. It was -2`C and I was on the floor under the car with a lump hammer and a block of wood bashing 10 bells of s**t out of the wheel. I then tried letting the car down off the jack without the bolts in and rocking the car side to side. That didn't work, so I went back to bashing the wheel from the underside again. Eventually the wheel started to move off the hub and away it came. I gave the hub and the inside of the wheel a quick blast with some wet & dry. Then I set about the hub and callpier with a mallet. Nothing! So as I was starting to freesze my bollocks off, I got the fan heater out the garage and sat it next to me and the hub. Within about 5 minutes the disc spun free on its own. I noticed a lot of wet around the rear of the disc guard. This is probably down to me washing the car a few days ago and it hasn't had chance to dry out since. So, all done now.
Thing is now, Chris had to borrow MY CAR to take Lauren to the doctors this morning. This is the first time that she's driven the car since the SC. She came home later with that stupid grin and wants to go out in it again now!! Marvellous!! pmsl..
just to keep her happy
Don't start!!
I've got enough voices in my head that i'm fighting with let alone thinking about fitting a turbo on her car. pmsl..
I'm struggling not to put a rear window/roof spoiler on it at the moment and i've noticed this morning whilst under it that it could do with a new backbox shortly. I feel a nice little shiney stainless number going on soon!!
rofl..
I've got enough voices in my head that i'm fighting with let alone thinking about fitting a turbo on her car. pmsl..
I'm struggling not to put a rear window/roof spoiler on it at the moment and i've noticed this morning whilst under it that it could do with a new backbox shortly. I feel a nice little shiney stainless number going on soon!!
rofl..
Sjdickso
Staff
Well it happened to the Astra today, -6.5 c this morning i could not get the car to shift, a few thousand RPM it moved and then i dragged it up the road andonto the Dual carriage way where it eased off, it never got above -3C at work and it was the same. After the 36miles on the motorway it eased off but it is stil not 100% free.
Will it improve after the temp rises or does it need stripping down?
Will it improve after the temp rises or does it need stripping down?
I released the handbrake cables from both sides on Sunday morning. The rubber sleeves on the ends of the cable where it joins the back of the hub are split and letting in water. I squirted WD40 up the cables and then coated everything in grease. Put it all back together and it froze up again today. I think it needs Daz TLC to sort it out shortly!!
pmsl..
pmsl..
