Coming home the other day in our 1983 Range Rover ,i noticed that the brake peddal went down further than normal all of the sudden.
I had recently renewed the front brakes so the back was suspect.
Bought new pads for the back,changed back left,no problems,still some wear left, got to the right side,wheel off and to my suprise the inner pad was missing!.
The clips were in place as were the pins,but the pad was gone and the piston was against the disc.
All sorted now but i have never lost a pad before.
How could it fall out ?.
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Some people will steal anything! ;-)
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L\'escargot.
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Stupid boy
Yes, Mr Mainwaring!
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L\'escargot.
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Not on topic ,but, i remember reading a biography on Arthur Lowe and he was a bit eccentric.
A member of the cast was remembering the time that Arthur and his wife left for their room after leaving reception with the request fo a barrel of beer,a hosepipe and a rose bush to be sent up.
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Now there's a real case of brake fade, the pad must've faded away. ;-)
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The clips were in place as were the pins,but the pad was gone and the piston was against the disc.
I shudder to think what state the disc was in.
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L\'escargot.
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>> The clips were in place as were the pins,but the pad >> was gone and the piston was against the disc. I shudder to think what state the disc was in. -- L\'escargot.
Reminds me of something that happened to one of the people I go riding with (cut and pasted from another forum):
"Mac wonders why on the sunday, after riding a crappy, gritty and muddy friday and saturday why his soft compound pads are making a funny sound and don't seem to be working quite as well as they once did....
After looking at the bike, finding the hubs are loose, headset needs adjustment, skewers are loose (etc, etc) it transpires that the brake pads have been used way beyond their natural life... so much so that the resin is completely spent....
this occasionally happens you may think, And indeed it has caught me out once or twice....
But not only has the resin been completely exhausted but there's two piston sized holes in the middle of them!
So the piston caps have been the brake 'pads' for some time
But to cap it off....
Mac "err...guys, erm... do you think that's a warranty job??"
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Reminds me of a golf n' beer break in the 80's. There was big clunk and rattle from under the bonnet of my Mk 1 Astra as I was negotiating a tight bend on the Isle of Wight.
Pulled in half a mile later to find one of the spark plugs missing. My mate trotted back to the bend, found the plug which we reinstalled.
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IanS
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