It was time to give the old girl a bit of TLC and get the handbrake sorted for the upcoming autotest/solo, as the handbrake wasn't working well at all....
So a recent trip to the Rover Centre of St. Albans for Owen Turner to replace the handbrake cables and set-up the rear brakes, not too hard a job, but I have never been able to work on drum brakes so i leave those jobs to others...
However it turned into a bigger job.....
Due to the rear drums being very worn, and the fact that the rear beam was already bent, it made sense to replace the rear beam with a 2nd hand one, with good brake parts, decent cables (saved the cost of new h/brake cables) and a new wheel bearing.
Whilst the car was on the ramp a few other little jobs were done as well, so the grand sum of work done was...
- 2nd hand rear beam fitted, complete with decent cables
- Rear brakes set-up
- Fix fuel tank mounts, after the dent from the Exmoor Rally
- Replace the bottom bush in the NSR shock
- Fit a 2nd hand diesel exhaust mid-section, which has no centre silencer.
- Bled all brakes, with new fluid
All in all although more expensive than I bargained for, it is good to get some of the 'to-do' list.
As you can see in the picture the exhaust needed replacing, due to it being almost half its diameter this is from to damage from recent rough events.
So a recent trip to the Rover Centre of St. Albans for Owen Turner to replace the handbrake cables and set-up the rear brakes, not too hard a job, but I have never been able to work on drum brakes so i leave those jobs to others...
However it turned into a bigger job.....
Due to the rear drums being very worn, and the fact that the rear beam was already bent, it made sense to replace the rear beam with a 2nd hand one, with good brake parts, decent cables (saved the cost of new h/brake cables) and a new wheel bearing.
Whilst the car was on the ramp a few other little jobs were done as well, so the grand sum of work done was...
- 2nd hand rear beam fitted, complete with decent cables
- Rear brakes set-up
- Fix fuel tank mounts, after the dent from the Exmoor Rally
- Replace the bottom bush in the NSR shock
- Fit a 2nd hand diesel exhaust mid-section, which has no centre silencer.
- Bled all brakes, with new fluid
All in all although more expensive than I bargained for, it is good to get some of the 'to-do' list.
As you can see in the picture the exhaust needed replacing, due to it being almost half its diameter this is from to damage from recent rough events.
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