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Spent all weekend doing various bits and pieces to my car after MKII National day; stripped out the master cyclinder, servo tower & alternator - re-painted the damaged area above the chassis rail where the master cylinder had leaked, re-fitted it all, filled up with DOT 5.1 (in case of any further leaks), replaced the tired multi leaf springs with new single leaf units from Burton, fitted new Bilsteins.
I took the car on a short test run to see if all was well, I got about 5 miles from home and decided to pull over and have a look at the ride height now the springs had settled. Just as I was de-accelerating from about 60mph an awful noise eminated from the rear of the car and the back wheels locked up at about 30 mph - not nice !
I ended up having to be recovered home as the car would not budge, I'm thinking blown diff (major bummer as it had just been rebuilt) but upon further investigation I have discovered that the n/s linings on the brake shoes had come adrift and managed to wedge themselves together between the drum and the shoe causing the n/s rear wheel to lock up.
The linings still had plenty of meat on them as I had checked them over the winter but obviously the adhesive used had degraded. This could have been nasty if it had happened at 80mph on the motorway so I can recommend to you all to check out the rear shoes on your cars !
I took the car on a short test run to see if all was well, I got about 5 miles from home and decided to pull over and have a look at the ride height now the springs had settled. Just as I was de-accelerating from about 60mph an awful noise eminated from the rear of the car and the back wheels locked up at about 30 mph - not nice !
I ended up having to be recovered home as the car would not budge, I'm thinking blown diff (major bummer as it had just been rebuilt) but upon further investigation I have discovered that the n/s linings on the brake shoes had come adrift and managed to wedge themselves together between the drum and the shoe causing the n/s rear wheel to lock up.
The linings still had plenty of meat on them as I had checked them over the winter but obviously the adhesive used had degraded. This could have been nasty if it had happened at 80mph on the motorway so I can recommend to you all to check out the rear shoes on your cars !
paul
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