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Not gonna bring anyone back to life, but if he's bodged up the car......

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Nige
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Reply to
Mark Solesbury

On or around Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:23:35 -0000, "Nige" enlightened us thusly:

"The tests found that the calliper on the offside front brake was bigger than the one on the nearside,"

If that bit's true, then it implies a serious lack of competence. Bearing in mind that it's considered poor form to mix new and used brake pads/shoes on an axle, even if they're of the same make, having mismatched calipers should be an obvious no-no. I would only consider it as an emergency short-term fix and even then I would be VERY circumspect about how I drove; if the reports about speed and overtaking are true, it doesn't sound as though he was. I'd only do something like that if I had no alternative vehicle and had to be somewhere, too. I certainly wouldn't leave it like that longer than necessary to get a new caliper to the correct spec. Especially if it was front brakes, which do more of the braking. I'd generally think hard about replacing calipers as a pair anyway, if one was faulty, but I'd certainly want the correct type.

A different caliper on a 110 is either from a different model-year or from something else like a RR or disco. The RR/disco ones are different in that they have 2 feed pipes, certainly compared with early 110s. don't know if later 110s use the same system as RR/discos, as regards brake circuit split.

"while the brake pedal was also worn."

Unless it was so worn as not to function correctly, (which would take some doing, the pedal and its pivots are quite solid) I don't really see the significance.

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Austin Shackles

ISTR someone in this group (Nige?) who lives near it saying it was a nasty road for passing on.

Yeah, I've heard from coppers in the past that the people who end up in the hedges are the locals.

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Ian Rawlings

I know the road quite well, it used to be in my area, it's not the best to be fair.

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Nige

I am worried about the qualifications of the person examining the landrover. Worn brake pedal, I would like to know more. After my experience with the police examining my Lotus and wanting to nick me for having no rear brakes. It had wire wheels with inboard discs and because he could not see any brake drums it had no brakes! I did not tell him I had qualified as a commercial vehicle examiner. There is no excuse over the caliper but many of us have made a temporary repair to get us home but we drive carefully. Of course this is only hearsay as far as we are concerned so we should be carefull about judging people but I know people can tell lies especially if they dont like a certain type or race of people.

Robbie

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Roberts

On or around Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:13:25 -0000, "Roberts" enlightened us thusly:

trouble is, it sounds like he'd made bodge-type repairs and left 'em, then drove as if the motor was in good nick.

I daresay the VI people know what they're looking at. To have spotted differing calipers on the front axle requires a fair amount of nouse, they're not really that dissimialr at aquick glance. Your "no brakes" dibble wouldn't have spotted that.

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Austin Shackles

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