Been there, just done that. I had my car up on sands for about 2 years and
had the hand brake on. Shoes rusted to drums. Not to worry. A couple of taps
with a mallet and the drums came off. Rusted as were the shoes. I also found
that there was crud around the rubber on the cylinders so, rather than
rebuild, just bought new ones. Did the fronts also as I found that the
bonding had loosened up on one shoe. So, New shoes, turned drums, cylinders
and everything fine. Since the car was up, decided to do everything.
BTW when I put the new shoes on, tested the hand brake linkage and it was
just fine. Problem was, as David alluded to, rust and leaving the hand brake
on for an extended length of time.
John Sims, BN6
Aberdeen, NJ
www.healey6.com
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From: healeys-bounces+ahbn6=optonline.net@autox.team.net
[mailto:healeys-bounces+ahbn6=optonline.net@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
David Nock
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:39 PM
To: retroagogo@comcast.net
Cc: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] locked parking brake?
You will find the rear shoes are wet with oil and have suctioned them
self to the brake drums. The other problem may be that the shoes are
rusted to the drums. This was caused because the car was parked for a
long time with the handbrake on. The only fix is you are going to
have to pull the rear drums and possible just clean it all up or
rebuild the rear brakes.
David Nock
British Car Specialists
Stockton Ca 95205
209-948-8767
www.britishcarspecialists.com
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On Aug 30, 2007, at 1:05 PM, retroagogo@comcast.net wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to the list. I just received my dad's 60 BT7 and
> have a problem. He parked the car 2 years ago in the garage with
> the parking brake on and there were no known issues with the brakes
> at that time. When we tried to pull it out, the rear brakes seemed
> to be locked up. Could this have been the parking brake locking
> up, and if so, is it easy to fix? I don't really know much about
> the car yet, but plan to get to know it very well over time.
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