Hello all I am a newbie to landies but (so I thought fairly mechanically minded....)
I'm looking for ideas with my series 3SWB brakes as the are pulsing and pumping up..
I got teh series 3 about a month ago and noticed the brakes wer crap and pumped up.. no worries I thought bleed them maybe find a cylinder leaking blown seals .. after noons work???
Mmmmm.. so here goes. I have read all the advice offrred on brakes on the forum and websites and tried everything to no avail.
turns out its had new shoes and pistons recently. I have bled and bled and even did it with an easy bleed but still they pump up and the pedal can go to the floor. So in my investigations the first thing I saw was the muppet who fitted the cylinders got the 1 1/4 and 1 inch ones mixed up so there was one of each diametre on each axel. so that was rectified both 1 1/4's n front but didn't make any difference to the issue. after copious bleeding and adjusting I thought the drums must be worn and or egg shaped so i bought new drums from craddocks
fitted them and to my horror the pedal was worse and it was pulsating even worse!
so i read up a bit more and noticed on the back the pads fitted in the front had less diameter of friction material than those on the back. I thought I would swap the pads front to rear so that the pads with most material were on the front. again this has made no difference whatsoever. I cannot find any info or any pics of how the pads front to rear differ on a swb.
my master cylinder is non servo BTW.
I am rapidly coming to the conclusion my hub (axels) maybe bent (hence pulsating even with new drums) and my master cylinder seals may be letting by hence pedal still pumping up.
Could my new drums from craddocks be egg shaped???
all the pads cylinders and drums are 3rd party nothnig is lucas or girling so probably made my monkeys in china
I am really getting to the end of my the with the bloody thing..HELP!!!
I'm looking for ideas with my series 3SWB brakes as the are pulsing and pumping up..
I got teh series 3 about a month ago and noticed the brakes wer crap and pumped up.. no worries I thought bleed them maybe find a cylinder leaking blown seals .. after noons work???
Mmmmm.. so here goes. I have read all the advice offrred on brakes on the forum and websites and tried everything to no avail.
turns out its had new shoes and pistons recently. I have bled and bled and even did it with an easy bleed but still they pump up and the pedal can go to the floor. So in my investigations the first thing I saw was the muppet who fitted the cylinders got the 1 1/4 and 1 inch ones mixed up so there was one of each diametre on each axel. so that was rectified both 1 1/4's n front but didn't make any difference to the issue. after copious bleeding and adjusting I thought the drums must be worn and or egg shaped so i bought new drums from craddocks
fitted them and to my horror the pedal was worse and it was pulsating even worse!
so i read up a bit more and noticed on the back the pads fitted in the front had less diameter of friction material than those on the back. I thought I would swap the pads front to rear so that the pads with most material were on the front. again this has made no difference whatsoever. I cannot find any info or any pics of how the pads front to rear differ on a swb.
my master cylinder is non servo BTW.
I am rapidly coming to the conclusion my hub (axels) maybe bent (hence pulsating even with new drums) and my master cylinder seals may be letting by hence pedal still pumping up.
Could my new drums from craddocks be egg shaped???
all the pads cylinders and drums are 3rd party nothnig is lucas or girling so probably made my monkeys in china
I am really getting to the end of my the with the bloody thing..HELP!!!
