Another Brake Problem

[Pesky Pete]

On a similar note to a previous post, I have soem weird stuff happening with the brakes on my 80 series.

Over the weekend I was out wheeling and the brakes went really doughy. When applying the brakes they were pretty spongy, and you could if you really tried push the pedal right to the floor. One pump on the pedal and I had good pedal again.

A quick inspection of the calipers etc looking for leaks etc found nothing. The fluid was full and everything looked okay. So I decided to stop wheeling and get the brakes checked out at the first opportunity. After leaving the campsite, I had a heap of smoke coming from the front left hand wheel and I imediately thought, ah there we go, found that leak.

Turned out that I hadstripped the locking tab on the big wheel bearing nuts and the smoke was coming from grease on brakes. I then managed to bodgy something up to get home, but suprise, suprise I have full brakes back again as soon as I got the wheel bearings tightened up

Is it coincidence, or is there something logical here I am missing. Brakes feel pretty good now, but I'm off wheeling again on the weekend and dont want my weekend to get spoilt with the brake issue again. Any idea appreciated

[ca18escort]

the only thing that I can think of is that with the loose wheel bearing you had the situation where there was a little bit of wobble in the disc. This may have knocked the pads back of the disc so that it took you a couple of pumps to get the pad back on the disc. Obviously after you tightened the wheel bearing no more pad knock.

Cheers
Paul

[Pesky Pete]

Yep, sounds logical.

Thanks Paul