Clio
Had lots of rear brake issues with my MOT.
Took car to mates and spent a few hours working with him tonight. He freed up the self adjusting wotsits in the drum (both were stuck) which fixed that problem, so hopefully it won't fail the retest with the pedal brakes now.
We (he) also tightened the handbrake cable (another part of the fail) so that the wheel could be turned easily when not on, but took effort to spin on just the third click. Unfortunately, off the jack and on the road, the car quickly rolls down a hill on the 3rd click, and needs a whopping 7 clicks to keep car in place. To get it to this 8th click, so much pressure is needed, its difficult to turn it off by lifting further then dropping.
It needed up to 7 clicks before (why it failed) but now on anything less than 7 it doesn't hold much at all, making grinding noises as it disappears over the cliff!
He's a mostly competent mechanic but has tried to avoid drums up til now. What did we (he) do wrong?!
Took car to mates and spent a few hours working with him tonight. He freed up the self adjusting wotsits in the drum (both were stuck) which fixed that problem, so hopefully it won't fail the retest with the pedal brakes now.
We (he) also tightened the handbrake cable (another part of the fail) so that the wheel could be turned easily when not on, but took effort to spin on just the third click. Unfortunately, off the jack and on the road, the car quickly rolls down a hill on the 3rd click, and needs a whopping 7 clicks to keep car in place. To get it to this 8th click, so much pressure is needed, its difficult to turn it off by lifting further then dropping.
It needed up to 7 clicks before (why it failed) but now on anything less than 7 it doesn't hold much at all, making grinding noises as it disappears over the cliff!
He's a mostly competent mechanic but has tried to avoid drums up til now. What did we (he) do wrong?!
