[TR] Rear Brake Noise

[Jeff Scarbrough]

U joints OK?  Splined half shafts lubricated and in good shape?

Might not be the brakes.  Today's ignition failure turned out to be a fuel
pump that lasted 9 miles.

On Fri, Nov 4, 2022, 18:00 Rochlin Robert <rrochlin at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi List,
>         I’m getting the weeds with the rear brakes of my TR6.  When I
> lightly apply the brakes I get metallic clunk.   If I repeatedly apply the
> brakes lightly the clunk gets more pronounced. I’ve carefully R and R'd
> them including new shoes.  The brakes are also well adjusted. My thought is
> that the noise is the brake piston engaging the shoe on the “fixed side” of
> the brake piston.  It may have been there before I noticed it, but now that
> I notice it I’m thinking there may be some way to eliminate the noise I’ve
> not come to yet. It also may be that, as we said back in the day at Rocky’s
> Service Station “ don’t worry about it, they all do that…”  Other than that
> the car has been great driving this summer. After much looking I wasn’t
> able to find a tire shop that could properly balance my wires, but one shop
> got them close enough to enjoy the car.  The hub on the drive wheel was
> worn and when I went to one chain tire store to swap over the new spare for
> the worn tire I was told that company policy was they would not mount /
> dismount a tire more than 5 years old - never heard that one before. Back
> at Rocky’s we’d work on anything.
>         I hope you all have some happy Fall motoring.  Yikes, daylight
> savings ends tonight.  I have to read Chris’s headlight post again.
>         Best,
>         Bob
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