Rebuilding brakes

[sujitroy]

I need to rebuild the brakes which I planned to do last, but with this shelter in place order, . Is there any harm in replacing the seals and pistons and letting the car sit? Is there some sort of brake grease I can use to prevent anything from seizing? The car wont be on the road for some time.

[wilf]

Normal brake fluid will keep the internals "safe", so long as you use fresh stuff (i.e. hasn't had a chance to absorb any moisture), Otherwise I can't think that you would need to"grease" anything else, as brakes live for a long time without any lubrication anyway. Certainly don't use copper-ease on brakes.

[Phil S]

if it's the seals on the piston you want to grease then there is a specific red brake grease available in small tubes, you wont need much.

[sujitroy]

if it's the seals on the piston you want to grease then there is a specific red brake grease available in small tubes, you wont need much.

Can I use this on the bores of the rear cylinders? I don't plan on beading the system any time soon. Or should I just coat the bores with fresh brake fluid?

[wilf]

If you are going to leave the system effectively full of air I wouldn't use brake fluid at all, the red grease would be better.

[barkerwilliams]

Whilst you have the rear brakes in pieces spend some time looking at the handbrake levers 519070 & 519071 they wear - but not very apparent and the hand brake is then almost totally ineffective. It was only when I bought new ones that I could see the issues.

Just so easy to replace when the brakes are apart.

Alan

[wilf]

^+1 on this - a new set finally encouraged my handbrake to work.

[Lingen]

Alan.
Where did you buy the new ones? Someone showed me a pair they had recently bought, and they had been made to the profiles of worn ones! Whoever made them didn't realise what the profile was like when they were new..
Mike.

[v8ken]

https://rimmerbros.com/Item--i-AAU8994

These adjusters are the same as Rover SD1,TR7 and Triumph 2000/2500,
Fitted these to mine years ago and made a real difference,Ken.

[Lingen]

Are we talking the shoe adjusters here, or the handbrake operating levers 519070 and 519071?
Mike.

[barkerwilliams]

Mike,

I bought mine from Peter at Ldpart. I'm talking

519070 and 519071.

Prior to fitting them the hand brake cable seemed too long and I could not get it tight enough so the handbrake was useless and I could not park on a gentle slope outside my house to open the gate, there was too much lost movement in the pin.

After fitting and no other changes I have not found a slope the handbrake cannot hold the car on.

Alan

[v8ken]

AAU62456PAIR
This kit at Rimmers is for sd1, but incorporate the same adjusters as the stag,but I don't know if any of the other components are shared with the Stag.if they do it might be better value.
I was talking about the adjusters earlier,as they are what made my handbrake work properly.(they have certainly gone up in price though,Ken.

[sujitroy]

Didn't Tony hart make some hand brake extension things that you put on the ends of 519070 and 519071?
Sujit

[wilf]

If you replace the inner levers, so that the wear on them is eliminated, you don't need those. I suspect they were making up for that wear.

[mole42]

If you replace the inner levers, so that the wear on them is eliminated, you don't need those. I suspect they were making up for that wear.

That is my experience too. Replace the levers and you don't need extensions.
The extensions were a Triumph development for rally cars, presumably to make handbrake turns easier....

Richard