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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: Lincs niva on July 31, 2008, 11:54:15

Title: Brake pad wear
Post by: Lincs niva on July 31, 2008, 11:54:15

I think my brake pads might be a liitle worn out

(http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd92/Lincs2007/niva016.jpg)

Must have had mud of grit trapped in there somewhere :roll:

Cheers Gav

Title: Re: Brake pad wear
Post by: andyb on July 31, 2008, 12:47:12

Looking at the grooves in those pads and the evidence of metal to metal contact I'd say that the discs are past their best. Could get them skimmed in a lathe.

Title: Re: Brake pad wear
Post by: Lord Shagg-Pyle on July 31, 2008, 18:08:12

Simple solution, Old Bean!

Don't use your brakes. I don't, and I get where I'm going a lot quicker, which means I get to see a lot more interesting places, usually after I've gome through the hedge into the field.

Title: Re: Brake pad wear
Post by: redhand on July 31, 2008, 18:10:38

I have some like those perhaps we need a subforum of our own???
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z302/redhand010/landys/HPIM0057.jpg)

(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z302/redhand010/landys/HPIM0056.jpg)

Title: Re: Brake pad wear
Post by: Lincs niva on July 31, 2008, 19:05:01

I had thought about not using brakes,thing is i dont like hedge bottoms :lol: :lol:

Redhand whats the cause of your wear???

Cheers Gav

Title: Re: Brake pad wear
Post by: redhand on July 31, 2008, 20:35:34

Quote from: Lincs niva on July 31, 2008, 19:05:01

I had thought about not using brakes,thing is i dont like hedge bottoms :lol: :lol:

Redhand whats the cause of your wear???

Cheers Gav

the owners, numpty boyfriend not maintaining the blooming thing.  I'd borrowed her disco for a week to go and work away and the brakes went on me just as I arrived at my destination So I had to change the pads before I could drive it anywhere else. the discs are a mess Told him they needed changing about 3 months ago and he still hasn't done it.

Title: Re: Brake pad wear
Post by: Ja1983 on August 01, 2008, 01:33:15

i too had the same affliction! although been an old disco, the rear pad had slipped onto the disc flange, not only creating a 4mm deep grrove, but at the same time seizing up 2 (inside) sliders, and blessing me with a bit of play in the nearside wheelbearing!

...add to that the rear brake pipe that looked a bit damp.. a week later it was positively wet, and of course that wasnt straight forward either, the bleed nipples were corrode and siezed, and the end sheared in the t-piece.....

2 pipes and a new t-piece later brakes still dont feel 100%, although the front pads are next on the priority list.

dont you just love landrovers?!