britishcarfreak
Jedi Hopeful
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My right rear brake on my 2500 saloon has been giving me the ****s.
Recently it would be smoking when I stopped and the wheel was too hot to touch. I was getting some wierd handling over bumpy roads and tail wiggles and strange lunges sideways when braking at high speed. (one such braking experience was a sudden jump on the brakes just after an overtaking manouver at 120kmp/hour - the tail started to come around to try and meet the front of the car - so I lifted off the brakes and gently steered back into the direction of travel).
As you can imagine this was alarming.
I was also getting spinning of the rear left wheel and some strange rear wheel steering when taking off. This was terrible in wet weather.
After a smoking brake issue I once stopped the car and jacked up the wheel and it turned freely. I assumed that it was a freak occurence but have since decided that raising the wheel would have slackened the hand brake cable to that wheel.
I found that the right handbrake cable was tight and the left was loose (when hand brake off). I checked the self centering bit in the middle of the cable and sure enough it was biased to the right. After adjustments and loosening of the cables I have not yet had another smoking brake or burning hot wheel - HOWEVER - the right rear wheel is still warm to the touch after a drive but the rear left is cold or luke warm.
Could the lining on one brake shoe have come loose?
There is no fluid loss from any of the bleed nipples.
Do people on the list also have warm rear wheels after a drive?
Recently it would be smoking when I stopped and the wheel was too hot to touch. I was getting some wierd handling over bumpy roads and tail wiggles and strange lunges sideways when braking at high speed. (one such braking experience was a sudden jump on the brakes just after an overtaking manouver at 120kmp/hour - the tail started to come around to try and meet the front of the car - so I lifted off the brakes and gently steered back into the direction of travel).
As you can imagine this was alarming.
I was also getting spinning of the rear left wheel and some strange rear wheel steering when taking off. This was terrible in wet weather.
After a smoking brake issue I once stopped the car and jacked up the wheel and it turned freely. I assumed that it was a freak occurence but have since decided that raising the wheel would have slackened the hand brake cable to that wheel.
I found that the right handbrake cable was tight and the left was loose (when hand brake off). I checked the self centering bit in the middle of the cable and sure enough it was biased to the right. After adjustments and loosening of the cables I have not yet had another smoking brake or burning hot wheel - HOWEVER - the right rear wheel is still warm to the touch after a drive but the rear left is cold or luke warm.
Could the lining on one brake shoe have come loose?
There is no fluid loss from any of the bleed nipples.
Do people on the list also have warm rear wheels after a drive?