Met up with Ian_GTI and Rob_G60 and Kev yesterday to help me sort out my rear brakes and handbrakes massive thanks to them as they really helped me out and got the car stopping properly!!
I initally got a reconditioned brake caliper from Vee W services at a staggering £102!!! thats including a surcharge! Going to take it back though as Rob took the rear calipers of the Raddo so we fitted them instead!
to give you an idea of how bad my brakes really were, when they were taking the wheel off ian asked me to step on teh brake to stop the wheel turning "Your foot on the brake stink?" and it was butthe wheel was still able to move and turn! Never a good sign!
While Ian got to work taking the utterly useless calipers off me and kev got to work on what you might say was an easy task of removing the old handbrake cable! Where they were so old and ruined it was quite a task just to pull them out which we did eventually but also pulled out pipe the cable runs through dude to it pretty much being fused together!!
After many failed attemps to get teh old cable out Kev went back to his and drilled them out,
After about 2 hrs or so we had changed the rear pads and calipers and got the new handbrake cables on and I finally have a car that now brakes correctly and that i can leave on a hill without it rolling anywhere when the handbrake is on!!
Ill whack up photos later, again big thanks to the guys they did alot of it
