Locking up rear brakes!

[Martin]

Im having a problem with my rear brakes locking up every time I apply hard/ish braking, Ive had the rear lowered recently and I presume that the valve thing hasnt been adjusted and my brakes think Ive got 3 passengers in the back, is this right? Is it easy to adjust? I need to sort this, my car wants to swap ends all the time and braking on corners is impossible!

 

[Rexy]

Its easy to adjust mate. You need:

13mm spanner, 8mm (i think) spanner and a pair of grips

Mine was doing the same, until i adjusted it now its fine.

 

[BenR]

Yup, simple adj teh compensatior by moving it out.

 

[Kelly]

Ah, the wonderful rear brake bias valve... Always scares me since Adi ended up rolling his silver valver because of the same problem

 

[TheJesus]

yup, had this problem only slightly more severe! Think you need to remove at least one of the pads then just adjust the silver caliper cylinder (1/4 rotations, otherwise will be miles out). I just used a screw driver to adjust it too btw, pretty quick job.

 

[2 live]

so i saw on the run to the peaks mate........think i commented on it as well......lol

not having lowered mine mate i dont have this problem.but i would say jus doin as thejesus says wud be a temp cure and adj the bias valve woud sort for good..............not really messed with it so not sure