Stuff you have fixed today

[My Old Landy]

ive seen that a few times and ive been working on cars for somewhat less than 40 years...


just a few weeks ago...

Is it just cheap pads? I don't buy cheap myself so it was a surprise to me!

 

[qwakers]

nope. those where oem. mazda logo on back proved it.

ive also had the same happen to brake shoes on the rear. once on a mk1 clio, and once on the handbrake shoes on a mk1 Sorento. both where caused by rust jacking due to age, both where oem shoes.

had it happen several times more on pads on random cars. those are just the most notable.

 

[Keithmac]

I've seen it a fair few times on the motorcycles.

 

[JOEPRO]

My rear brakes had started to grumble but the pads had been replaced within the last year (I had been led to believe).
Looking through the wheel seemed to corroborate that belief.
Anyway, my friend came over today and took the wheel off and split the caliper.
This is what dropped out of the inner side:
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I have not seen one delaminate like that before in over 40 years of doing brakes

ive seen that a few times and ive been working on cars for somewhat less than 40 years...


just a few weeks ago...

I restore my own 15 - 30 year old MB cars. I've seen this a good number of times.

Last example was the rear brake pads on my S600 V12, fell out in bits.



Discs were still in good condition as were the rear 4 pot calipers. So I fitted new pads and that was that.

 

[Keithmac]

Fancy bike, fancy bits, burnt out clutch in 2000 miles..

I've got an idea why it's failed but waiting on a new Ducati clutch pack to turn up to do some measuring.

Feel sorry for customer as they bought it all done (ex display bike), obviously person who fitted it all didn't check it afterwards.

I've already proven it's not a hydraulic issue so can't do any more until new clutch turns up.

A lot to be said for leaving stuff alone / standard imho.

Clutch Pack is £400, plus time for fitting and more time to work out which aftermarket part caused the fault in the first place..

 

[Keithmac]

Harley Softail Drivebelt and pulley replacement.

Remove all the Primary Drive / Clutches and casings, remove exhaust (because they fit the swingarm pivot from the rhs!).

Special tool for front pulley. Special tool for Start bolts (otherwise it's oil tank out as well).

A lot of choice words along the way!.

I put swingarm spindle in from the left when rebuilding to save the next bloke in some time..

 

[Farside]

My rear brakes had started to grumble but the pads had been replaced within the last year (I had been led to believe).
Looking through the wheel seemed to corroborate that belief.
Anyway, my friend came over today and took the wheel off and split the caliper.
This is what dropped out of the inner side:
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I have not seen one delaminate like that before in over 40 years of doing brakes

I have - long before cheapanese forgeries were on the market.
It happens to decent brands, too. Thankfully, rarely.

 

[minimutly]

I have - long before cheapanese forgeries were on the market.
It happens to decent brands, too. Thankfully, rarely.

Yes but not usually under 5 yrs old?

 

[dobbslc]

Fancy bike, fancy bits, burnt out clutch in 2000 miles..

I've got an idea why it's failed but waiting on a new Ducati clutch pack to turn up to do some measuring.

Feel sorry for customer as they bought it all done (ex display bike), obviously person who fitted it all didn't check it afterwards.

I've already proven it's not a hydraulic issue so can't do any more until new clutch turns up.

A lot to be said for leaving stuff alone / standard imho.

Clutch Pack is £400, plus time for fitting and more time to work out which aftermarket part caused the fault in the first place..
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Harley Softail Drivebelt and pulley replacement.

Remove all the Primary Drive / Clutches and casings, remove exhaust (because they fit the swingarm pivot from the rhs!).

Special tool for front pulley. Special tool for Start bolts (otherwise it's oil tank out as well).

A lot of choice words along the way!.

I put swingarm spindle in from the left when rebuilding to save the next bloke in some time..

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From one end of the performance and technology scale to the other!

 

[bricol]

Yes but not usually under 5 yrs old?

I was surprised to discover the rear pads on my Alfa, replaced in the first lock down, fell apart as I check the crap brakes before I took it for an MOT prior to retaxing it and putting it on the road last October-ish - it had been parked since May, handbrake off.

My thoery is winter use covered them in salt etc, and no non-winter use meant no repeated dowsings in rainwater to wash it all off - the powerwashing I gave it obviously wasn't good enough.

 

[DennisCA]

It hurts to find things like this

Nothing to it but start welding

New side plates after I've applied rust converter and primer on the inside. Then it's primer and underseal on the outside. Then lots of linseed oil inside and all the seams.

 

[RichardM]

My rear brakes had started to grumble but the pads had been replaced within the last year (I had been led to believe).
Looking through the wheel seemed to corroborate that belief.
Anyway, my friend came over today and took the wheel off and split the caliper.
This is what dropped out of the inner side:
View attachment 412641
I have not seen one delaminate like that before in over 40 years of doing brakes

I've had EBC pads do it on the bike before.

 

[My Old Landy]

I've had EBC pads do it on the bike before.

From all the replies I guess I have just been lucky not to have come across it before!

 

[Dcal]

I was surprised to discover the rear pads on my Alfa, replaced in the first lock down, fell apart as I check the crap brakes before I took it for an MOT prior to retaxing it and putting it on the road last October-ish - it had been parked since May, handbrake off.

My thoery is winter use covered them in salt etc, and no non-winter use meant no repeated dowsings in rainwater to wash it all off - the powerwashing I gave it obviously wasn't good enough.

The 159?
They were the same on mine, front and rear.
Rears were Brembo but probably years old.

 

[Guzrik]

Moodboard

Ready for assembly

Tadaa

Testing tommorow, hope I am now able to see what I ran over.

 

[Prajna]

My neighbour's passenger seat collapsed in her landy and since it's not driving atm (uj on the front propshaft exploded) I thought I'd take the seat out and see what I could do. I found this:

So, someone had stuck one side of the rail together with pigeon doings and left the other side with a chunk of rail missing.

Out with my trusty Lidl fcaw and an offcut of shs to rebuild the missing rail:

Then stick the other rail back together:

There were more cracks at the other end of the rails and also on one side where it was bent:

Gave those a bit of a blast with the welder too. I used a nice big pair of dividers I inherited from my dad to check the spacing between the rails so the bolt holes would still line up.

All good. Just gotta bolt it back in the landy now.

 

[DennisCA]

Saab's patched back together and rolling now. Red primer's running together with th eunderseal because I was in too much of a hurry.

 

[Danez]

decided to fix the empty space on my living room wall

 

[AKN]

I bought this at the Dambusters Radio Rally last year. Was told by seller it worked, got it for my derisory offer at the end of the rally, checked in receive powered of the car battery and all looked promising.

When I got it home and on the bench found transmit was another story! On some bands it worked on others got no output and about 30A of current draw. Problem was the low pass filter board was not selecting filters properly. This year, curtesy of @My Old Landy ’s generosity I got a logic analyser so last weekend set about it. Found bad solder joint on CPU board and a dodgy connector and together with an ugly wire-add to fix damage done by someone changing relays it‘s back on the air and getting great reports.

 

[Gregb23]

Old Stihl 026 back up and running after a slight seize. Tuned it a little too lean.

Chucked a cheap piston and cylinder in as I've some wood I need to sort. Will clean up the cylinder and pop a decent brand piston back in at some point in the future. Will give it a proper leak test then as well.

Also fixed the 3cx, managed to burst its main hydraulic hose the other day and spewed the liquid gold out. New decent pipe rather than the 2wire bodge that was fitted previously, all topped off and back to working condition.