Tom,
MGA brakes are pretty darn good. They will stop the wheels, and quickly.
You should be able to lock up all four brakes (carefully) at any speed on any
road surface. While it is possible to overheat them (fade), itâ??s not
something you are likely to do in everyday driving.
If you want to feel fade, stop hard from 60 mph, accelerate to 60 again and
stop hard again, several times. You will feel some loss of braking g-forces on
the third or fourth stop, but that doesnâ??t happen in normal driving.
I would suggest going over them completely, replacing all three rubber
hoses, flushing with new fluid, filling and bleeding. Have a look at the shoes
and their adjusters.
Believe it or not, I had a TD in my garage recently that had one front brake
set up with two leading shoes, as built, and one set up with two trailing
shoes, as bodged by the mechanic who replaced the brakes. You didnâ??t think
that could be done.....It can be.....
Further, he had turned up the nuts on the hand-brake lever. Handbrake
worked wonderfully well, locking up the rear wheels with two clicks, but the
service brake was doing nothing.
MGA brakes were good when new, and should be just as good these days.
Bob
> On Jun 24, 2021, at 4:06 PM, Thomas Gunderson <thgun@comporium.net> wrote:
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> How can I improve the standard brakes?
> Tom Gunderson 1957 MGA 1500 rst
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