Tyres

Thankyou.

Didn't say otherwise.

It's a swing caliper - I suppose the predecessor of sliding types. The whole caliper pivots. The pads start out with wedge shaped linings then gradually become 'square' as they wear down. It has a single piston internally which acts on a self adjusting mechanism which acts on the single piston which operates one pad - the pivoting action causing the other one to grip. Similar really to a sliding design. What also worries me about Conor's 'technique' is the back op the caliper has a tin cover to allow access to the mechanism. And if you put pressure on that via a g-clamp it would likely distort and allow muck in - the last thing you want with these.

That's nothing like a P6 one.

It's Girling - and was also used by Ford on the Mk IV Zephyrs. Probably other makes too. I think Rover were sort of forced to use it as Dunlop who made the brakes on the earlier cars stopped production.

As I said before it works extremely well - the best handbrake I've had on any car - but like anything slightly more complicated than usual is open to bodging by those more familiar with simple ones.

snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk (SteveH) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

A bad workman blames his G(oogle)-cramp.

Assuming I have understood you correctly no I'm not, I cant abide swearing in any form or bickering about nothing in particular.

Except that Adrian and Steve were mislead by a misleading Google link, of course you would have known that instantly you followed that URL if you had ever seen (let alone worked) on a P6 rear brakes...

"campingstoveman" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

What the f*ck are you doing here, then? I mean, seriously...

Think most here agree with you. ;-)

Indeed, both of which Conor seems to 'thick' to understand. :~(

Being "the instigator" of a thread doesn't give you any particualr priveliges.

I am disappointed that you're too pig-ignorant to know how to reply to a usenet post.

You don't get to make the rules. You certainly don't get the right to tell others to shut up.

Then I respectfully suggest that you f*ck off.

No Conor, it *was* called "C&G Motor Vehicle Craft Studies", you have just proved that you never took anything near the quality of apprentership I took, you basically took a collage course that taught you enough to find work in the motor trade [1] as there were no apprenterships (as such) by the mid 1980s...

Not a hope. If this is the design of caliper I think, you _don't_ want to push it all, merely rotate it and let it wind itself back in (I'm familiar with this Girling design, but don't know if it's what the P6 used) It's not at all useful to apply any sort of axial pressure - it can't help, it can only jam the thread.

I'd agree - but not having tried it and can't anymore I'll give Conor 10% of the benefit of the doubt.

The Girling unit used by the P6 is described as a swing caliper design.

Is this the type of tool which "attaches" to the piston with the lugs?

What I use is just a universal cube block on a 3/8" drive in which you apply hand pressure when you are winding the piston in.

is the tool which has differing lug sizes on each of the six sides.

Yes, the following examples are the correct tools, but not for the P6, which don't have 'lugs', rather a 'L' shaped bit of sprung steel that engages with the pad or retracting tool.

It be seen in the second example that it will be almost impossible to apply excessive pressure to the piston.

Whatever...