Do you remember what it is you had to move out of the way? Other than the exhaust which I see as quite obvious

Yes it is a K series, I can see the support bracket in your image has been removed or wasnt there (goes around the drive shaft) but I can clearly see the IRD is still in which is good news! Thanks

Hey all! Another Thread :p I am looking to change the oil sump on the Freelander but last I looked the IRD and other brackets are in the way, if anyone has done it I would love some suggestions, I really don't want to have to take the IRD out...

Sounds tight to me. Ideally you adjust shoes as you have done but with cable slackened right off at the handbrake to avoid upsetting the adjustment. Then set handbrake to 1 click and adjust the cable to make the drums just rub. Then release...

New shoes need to bed in then they will need adjusting again.

The world has spent the last 100 odd years building up a petrol and diesel refuelling infrastructure so it will take a while for EV's chargers to catch up. It doesn't help that most of us charge at home most of the time so a constant demand in...

Maybe? how could I tell? It's only attached to the brake booster via a pin and clip style connection, and the brake booster is bolted on. The hand brake used to do one click hence I think 3 may be too much, maybe the space could be the unused...

I adjusted them to where I couldn't get the drum on at all, then 1 click back to fit them on, the hand brake goes up about 3 clicks so that tells me they need adjusting again, maybe the adjuster has gone bad on them?

Did you adjust out the brake shoes? I normally bring them out until the wheel won't turn then back a notch. If the hand brake pulls up more than a few notches it would indicate they need adjusting.

It's perfectly possible and worth considering! For now though I just need an MOT it's been 4 months since I last drove it properly, gonna give it a quick shoot up the motorway before the MOT, I will be sure to let everyone know how that goes...

Are you sure that it isn't just that the return spring is weak, malpositioned or summat, the return on the pedal or master cylinder I mean.

Even weirder that it applies the brakes a fair amount in that dead-space, but I think the MOT guy will be happy enough compared to last time :oops: You can adjust the pushrod on the pedal to the master, I've adjusted it a bit, but it is...

Glad you got it sorted, well almost. The dead space ought to be down to pistons moving through empty space until the pads contact the discs, and/or the shoes contact the drums. If calipers are properly built I cannot see how that can happen as...

Coming back to this with some good news finally! We managed to take it for a drive on... private road 🤫 None the less I can safely say while there is that 10-15% dead-space at the beginning the brakes still work in that range maybe it's just...

After several weeks working on the car I managed I managed to get Chademo charging working well enough make the journey to the TOG Hackerspace in Dublin. This was for an annual get together of DIY EV Builders. My daughter Rachel surprised me the...

Blowtorch sufficed :) though they almost went!

As mentioned before make sure you have a power finger file before you start the brake cylinders. As for MOT, where I am they only care if the braking is good enough.

I love the fact that you call yourself xdParis64 and in fact come from Fareham, which is just down the road from me in the UK. Although obvs we are in our Frog résidence at the mo!

They look upside down to me.

I get the feeling you may not be old enough to have gone through the stage of trying to bleed the rear brakes on an old style Mini where the wheel cylinders were often fitted like that. I love the way you call cylinders in disc brake calipers...

The rear brakes are Drums... :) When I refer to Cylinders I refer to the wheel cylinders in the drums at the rear, when I refer to calipers I refer to the Discs and pistons at the front :) I am very young though, thank you for noticing!

The wheel cylinders needed doing as before the pedal was spongy I only installed the calipers wrong after painting them, not my proudest moment... :p

Cannot beleeeve that you fitted them with the bleed nipples at the bottom. :rolleyes: Having a bit of spare travel is not a bad thing.

All of that and I am just an idiot :/ I was doing some more googling and someone said "make sure the calipers are the right way otherwise the bleed nipples will be at the bottom. Lo and Behold reviewing some of the videos we took. That is the...

...Here we are again, this again didn't fix the issue... Good news though! The pedal now feels different... Still not good, but before it used to go solid but be very spongy, now the pedal is very smooth does not feel spongy but it goes all the...

Painted the calipers Blue while they were off... 🤷‍♂️

Took wife's 2005 FL1 for MOT today. Passed with no advisories !!

I've been pushing ahead with the low voltage junction box trying to get the car ready for a road trip next Saturday and today I had the biggest step forward since enabling regen. :D DC fast (ish) charging at a Chademo charger. :banana...

Discs and pads done today in between a day at the beach. How's that @andyfreelandy...

A powered finger file is your friend to grind off the heads off the bolts. Unless they've been removed already sometime recently the heads will chew off and you have no hope of getting them out.