Sounds like a good time for a brake fluid flush.The last bits arrived on Monday for my back brakes and as the retest runs out tomorrow, this evening I....
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I always have a read of Rave before doing anything to the car, but I didn't today, how difficult can the shoes be to replace! Yeh, right. I'm sure Rave would have made my life a lot easier giving a decent order to assemble the parts (hand brake, adjuster, springs etc). I did though remember LZ advice to take photos of the setup - which came in handy as I realised I didn't know which way up the adjuster should go in. Any how I did the passenger side first - all came apart well and gave the backing plate a good clean up - the bolts and pipe came off the cylinder no problems and new cylinder on OK. The reassembly of the shoes is a bit like a Krypton Factor challenge, but eventually got it all together an new drum on.
It was very late by this point, but I decided to do the drivers side as well - would be a lot quicker having solved the Krypton Factor challenge. Got the old stuff off, cleaned up the backing plate, loosened the bolts for the cylinder... then went to loosen the brake pipe to the cylinder and got that horrible feeling as the spanner rounded on the nut - bugger.
So I tidied up, dosed the nut (or what ever its called) in WD40 and called it a day - shall get back to it tomorrow. Fingers crossed can get it off.
I also couldn't find a bit on my 1-man-bleeding kit. So I've been unable to bleed the new cylinder. I just know that by the time I do it tomorrow, all that air will have worked it way right up through the system and I'll have a full blown bleeding to do. I've made sure the reservoir is maxed full - but I don't suppose that matters much though!
@Nodge68 - I got the AllMakes drums and they're just steel - not painted - presumably they'll rust so I'll need to paint them?
What supports that pipe on the A pillar?Here’s what I’ve done over the past week!
Replaced sun roof (one was missing!)
Replaced wiper/light stalks (they were snapped)
Replace steering wheel
Replaced both headlights (clear type)
Replaced side indicators (clear type )
Fitted spare wheel cover
Removed carpets (off use)
Fitted LR boot liner
Resprayed bonnet
Resprayed alloys
Removed air filter fitted universal one —
Made snorkel from gutter pipes and universal air box
Been busy really now to find lift kit and tyres!!
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lol, Kiwi conditions, or rather Kiwi councils cos we get more and heavier frosts here than we did in the UK but they still don't stick salt down on the roads.Sounds like a good time for a brake fluid flush.
Can't believe you got the bolts off the cylinder, mine were a rusty blob when I went to do them.
And things were going so well!
Today when I got home (50 mile round trip commute) the Hippo was making a new noise.
A quick listen in the engine compartment leads me to think it's the alternator.
Tomorrow I'll pull the engine cover off the V6 and give it a close look.
It's not a whine, more of a rubbing noise, almost like a worn bearing or bushing. It seems to be coming from the area of the alternator but there is a lot going on there on the V6,What sort of noise? They are know to whine on occasion. They still work fine, except for the whine.
I was sure my cambelt was just about to go bang on my L Series a couple of years ago. There was an ominous sound coming from that area. Nobody else in the family could hear it - just me. I took it to a garage, they couldn't hear anything. Took it to another garage, they couldn't hear anything either - but I still got them to change the belts We'll never know if I was right or wrong to get them changed but the sound went... to be replaced by another wierd sound!It's not a whine, more of a rubbing noise, almost like a worn bearing or bushing. It seems to be coming from the area of the alternator but there is a lot going on there on the V6,
alternator, power steering pump, cam belt and it's tensioner and idler pulleys, and the pulleys for the serpentine belt. I have taken off the engine cover but there is no obvious location
the sound is coming from, even using a stethoscope. The serpentine belt does seem very tight but that is controlled by the tensioner. It may be another one of those things that I will have to leave alone until it gets bad enough that the source is obvious. I took a video but there is so much background noise it's hard to make out.
It's not a whine, more of a rubbing noise, almost like a worn bearing or bushing. It seems to be coming from the area of the alternator but there is a lot going on there on the V6,
alternator, power steering pump, cam belt and it's tensioner and idler pulleys, and the pulleys for the serpentine belt. I have taken off the engine cover but there is no obvious location
the sound is coming from, even using a stethoscope. The serpentine belt does seem very tight but that is controlled by the tensioner. It may be another one of those things that I will have to leave alone until it gets bad enough that the source is obvious. I took a video but there is so much background noise it's hard to make out.