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1. [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: Greg Mandas <gmandas@yahoo.com>; Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:42:07 -0700 (PDT); The rear wheels locked and the fronts didn't. The brake booster on my BJ8 isn't working, so the brakes are functional but hard. I'm figuring the lack of a functional booster isn't a factor. Is this l; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00533.html (7,760 bytes)
2. Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: "Rich C" <richchrysler@quickclic.net>; Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:53:53 -0400; Your brake booster needs to be working so that you could lock all 4 corners without much effort. You have some work to do. Rich The rear wheels locked and the fronts didn't. The brake booster on my; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00534.html (8,206 bytes)
3. Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: Randy Hicks <Healey100M@gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:14:41 -0400; Do you have work to do????? Fix the booster! Geez..... Randy Randy Hicks www.austinhealey100m.com '56 100 M '55 BN1 Dealer Le Mans '62 BN7 MkII '65 BJ8 '53 MGTD Healey100M@gmail.com isn't working, so; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00535.html (8,708 bytes)
4. Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: Greg Mandas <gmandas@yahoo.com>; Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:00:46 -0700 (PDT); Will fixing the booster keep the rears from locking up before the fronts or are there balancing adjustments I need to make or is it the nature of the beast? Greg 65BJ8 - original 38K miles <gmandas@y; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00537.html (9,793 bytes)
5. Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: F Ronald Rader <f.ronald.rader@gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:28:53 -0700; I never had the rears lock up in ten years. on the other hand I am not sure that I ever locked up the wheels. ron rader _______________________________________________ Healeys@autox.team.net Donate:; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00538.html (7,683 bytes)
6. Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: Alan Seigrist <healey.nut@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:01:47 +0800; If your rear wheels locked and your fronts didn't, I would suspect the rubber hose connecting the main brake pipe to the axle pipe. These hoses typically delaminate inside, creating a check valve in; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00540.html (11,235 bytes)
7. Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: healeyguy@aol.com; Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:09:19 -0400; Lets think about lock up a bit. I'm assuming that your brakes did not stay locked up when you released the pedal pressure. So...Punch the brake pedal and cylinders move friction material into contac; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00541.html (8,884 bytes)
8. Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: Magnus Karlsson <magnuskarlsson@bornet.net>; Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:16:58 +0200; It can be very dangerous if the rear wheels lock up before the front. Unfortunately fixing the servo won4t cure that condition. If you assemble a Healey brake system today, correctly and with all new; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00542.html (9,314 bytes)
9. Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: Charlie Baldwin <mgcharlie@comcast.net>; Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:15:25 -0400; Are there any parts in particular that you feel create this problem? Is it just in the friction material, so that if the correct combination between front and rear is used, the problem will be elimi; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00543.html (11,525 bytes)
10. Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>; Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:44:26 -0700; Are you saying the newer materials used in the shoes are causing this problem? That would mean, I guess, that the new shoe linings are more effective than the old (actually, TOO effective). I've not; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00544.html (9,708 bytes)
11. Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: "Dave Porter" <frogeye@porterscustom.com>; Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 07:00:29 -0600; I suspect the rears are over adjusted and heavily glazed and are grabbing. You'll never know if you don't at least remove the drums.. dave frogeye@porterscustom.com Porter Customs 2909 Arno NE Albuqu; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00546.html (10,999 bytes)
12. Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: warthodson@aol.com; Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:03:24 -0400; Of course, locking the front brakes is also dangerous & not the best way to stop in the shortest distance. When all the components are working as intended it can be very difficult to determine weathe; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00547.html (9,484 bytes)
13. Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: Greg Mandas <gmandas@yahoo.com>; Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 07:56:02 -0700 (PDT); Sounds like you guys are talking about asbestos. I had to deal with it when I had my 1979 BMW 528i. (That was a great car.) When "they" outlawed it in the USofA, the reformulated brake pads were har; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00549.html (10,752 bytes)
14. Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: Richard Ewald <richard.ewald@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:00:42 -0700; Whenever I have had a car with locking drum brakes the first thing to do is to pull the drums and check for either leaking wheel cylinders or a leaking axle seal. Any contaminates on the brake shoes; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00555.html (9,669 bytes)
15. Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: WILLIAM B LAWRENCE <ynotink@msn.com>; Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:10:32 +0000; Just my theory: The disc brakes on the front require a higher pedal pressure to lock than the drum brakes on the rear. They have no self-servo action. That is why there is a booster. They never neede; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00559.html (10,265 bytes)
16. Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: Oudesluys <coudesluijs@chello.nl>; Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:19:02 +0200; In many cars the rear brakes lock first, especially in the wet. I have had some hairy moments in my JH with this. In the end I fitted rear brake cylinders with a smaller diameter to reduce brake forc; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00560.html (7,973 bytes)
17. Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: Chris Dimmock <austin.healey@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:18:06 +1100; Hi Magnus, The main reason I've found for rear brakes locking is that most modern rear brake shoes are relined across the entire shoe. Standard Healey shoes in the era were never relined over the ent; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00566.html (10,687 bytes)
18. Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: Alan Bromfield <bluehealey@gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:27:18 +0100; Brilliant!! Exactly where my thought processes were going. On my BJ8 this problem was particularly prevalent with the rears locking up far too easily. I thought it was caused by weight transfer to th; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00570.html (10,261 bytes)
19. Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: Chris Dimmock <austin.healey@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:25:07 +1100; Hi Alan, You'll end up taking off more than 1/8 inch off a shoe that is fully lined, but if you reduce the lining by small increments you won't stuff them up. I'll try and find some old original shoe; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00573.html (11,249 bytes)
20. Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking (score: 1): Author: healeyguy@aol.com; Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:02:29 -0400; "Unless someone else has a spare set of old rear shoes available they can measure and post the answer here." I got a hundred of them but they are at home and it will be several more hours before I g; /html/healeys/2010-10/msg00576.html (8,004 bytes)

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