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Rear wheels were making an awful squealing and tapping sound last week. Jacked it up to find they wouldn't rotate. Calipers seized both sides.
Stripped it all down and found the handbrake shoe retaining pins had also let go, causing the shoes to trash themselves inside the disc. This was the tapping noise. Discs had overheated and cracked. No wonder the mpg was down!
So, I ended up replacing the handbrake shoes with new pins, new discs and pads and new calipers.
Whilst the rear wheels were off, I cleaned the insides with autoglym wheel cleaner to get the crap and accumulated brake dust off. They're not perfect alloys but it looks better now.
So over the last 15 months it's had new front discs and pads, new front calipers, new front brake pipes with flexi pipes, new front to rear brake pipes and flexi pipes. The whole braking system is all new!
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14th Apr 2017 5:17pm
