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urgent GQ rear brake question
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:31 am
by JBE
I have a 93 GQ wagon with rear drum brakes and it looks like the load sensing (or proportioning) valve is shot. Nissan want around 800 $ for the spare part.
Does anyone know if the rear sensing valve for the rear drum and disks are identical? Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers
Joachim
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:33 pm
by Chookman
Burt Brothers Brakes in Fairfield, Sydney are generally pretty good.
The may know the answer.
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:53 pm
by Josh_GQ
have been running mine for some time without this valve and can't seem to notice much difference. probably not real legal though
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:59 pm
by bru21
i had mine without the valve working and it seemed ok too. had a 8"+ lift with only a 4"riser bar so the angle was all wrong and the valve was not working.
just checked the shed i thought i had a spare but no luck.
cheers bru
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:55 pm
by JBE
Thanks guys. I found out that the proporting valves for drum and disc rear are identical. According to Nissan, the part No. listed for the disc model superseeds the one for the drum rear. I was lucky with one of the wreckers and it'll go in tomorrow.
Cheers
Joachim
Disc
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 9:15 am
by Not For Highway Use
Why bother hooking up the drums again. I was looking for a rear housing this week and got offered one by dow50r for bugger all complete disc diff. PM him I bought a GU unit
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:00 pm
by JBE
I'm looking into this as well now. Problem is that my workshop has just replaced my master brake cylinder which I would have to toss out. I just don't want to completely blow out the budget for that fix.