#1: Random back sticky breaks :s Author: ash-bash, Location: EdinburghPosted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:17 am ---- my car has the worse back breaks going and they are starting to take the utter p**h out of me! i just got them sorted and they keep sticking on. i can take my hand break off on a hill and itll stay there and same on a flat-ish road. any suggestions would be ace!
cheers
ash
#2: Re: Random back sticky breaks :s Author: MrBSI, Location: What's it to you? ? ?Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:29 am ---- Discs or drums on the back?
#3: Re: Random back sticky breaks :s Author: ash-bash, Location: EdinburghPosted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:39 am ---- ehmm i think drums haha!
#4: Re: Random back sticky breaks :s Author: MrBSI, Location: What's it to you? ? ?Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:50 am ---- Go have a look please as the problems are different depending on what rear brakes you have.
#5: Re: Random back sticky breaks :s Author: sillyhilly, Location: The Mean Streets of CoventryPosted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:55 am ---- Recent cold weather?? Sounds like the shoes have welded to the drums.
#6: Re: Random back sticky breaks :s Author: ash-bash, Location: EdinburghPosted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:57 am ---- they are drums, when i got the car when i was 16 my bk right was bust and got it sorted, and now the new one that was on it is doing the same and so is the other side!
#7: Re: Random back sticky breaks :s Author: sillyhilly, Location: The Mean Streets of CoventryPosted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:58 am ----
ash-bash wrote:
they are drums, when i got the car when i was 16 my bk right was bust and got it sorted, and now the new one that was on it is doing the same and so is the other side!
Have you pulled off one morning with the handbrake off and heard a loud clunk? Or you particularly struggled to pull off as if there was some resistance pulling you back, and all of a sudden it went?
#8: Re: Random back sticky breaks :s Author: MrBSI, Location: What's it to you? ? ?Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 10:02 am ---- Most likely the handbrake cable has been done up to tight.
Both drums need to come of.
Inspect the brake shoes & cylinders for damage / leakage, then a good clean down with brake cleaner.
Make sure the automatic adjuster is working ok, the shoes move freely & nothing is seized up.
Both rear brakes need to be adjusted correctly BEFORE the handbrake cable is finally adjusted.
#9: Re: Random back sticky breaks :s Author: ash-bash, Location: EdinburghPosted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:07 pm ----
MrBSI wrote:
Most likely the handbrake cable has been done up to tight.
Both drums need to come of.
Inspect the brake shoes & cylinders for damage / leakage, then a good clean down with brake cleaner.
Make sure the automatic adjuster is working ok, the shoes move freely & nothing is seized up.
Both rear brakes need to be adjusted correctly BEFORE the handbrake cable is finally adjusted.
thanks ill get them done hopefully at the weekend! see what the bf is doing and try get him to helps
sillyhilly wrote:
ash-bash wrote:
they are drums, when i got the car when i was 16 my bk right was bust and got it sorted, and now the new one that was on it is doing the same and so is the other side!
Have you pulled off one morning with the handbrake off and heard a loud clunk? Or you particularly struggled to pull off as if there was some resistance pulling you back, and all of a sudden it went?
yeah to both of them! its p**sing me off now to be honest.
#10: Re: Random back sticky breaks :s Author: alborough1974, Location: Isle of WightPosted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:56 am ---- I've just had a similar issue with mine.
For the past week or 2 if the car has been left overnight or for a long period of time the car wouldn't pull away and the only way to get it to move was to put it into reverse rock it back slightly and the brake's would release with a loud clunk.
I have only had the car since october so had never touched the brakes so on saturday i stripped down the rear brake's only to find that the N/S/R wheel cylinder had a slight leak and that the brake fluid combined with 58000 miles worth of brake dust was forming a sticky mess which was causing the handbrake to stick if left standing for a long period of time.
The parts have now been ordered and should be here tommorow. £57 from brakes international for new rear shoes and both wheel cylinders which i didn't think was to bad.
#11: Re: Random back sticky breaks :s Author: Mike_XS, Location: SouthamptonPosted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:01 am ----
sillyhilly wrote:
Recent cold weather?? Sounds like the shoes have welded to the drums.
That's what my old man said, he was a mechanic for god knows how many years....I been having the same problem where it's been so cold.
#12: Re: Random back sticky breaks :s Author: ash-bash, Location: EdinburghPosted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:33 pm ---- hmmm it happens on warm days too soo am thinking its time to probs get them changed!
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