Rear drum brakes, 1998 V70 AWD

Your description doesn't quite fit the picture which I have in the parts list on VADIS. [If your email address is genuine and you would like a copy, please indicate and I will email it to you].

As far as I can see, the AWD rear brakes are similar to those on FWD V70s - in that there is a combined disc (rotor) and drum - using the disc with hydraulically operated pads for stopping and using the drum with mechanically operated shoes for parking. Is yours not like that?

If it is, the parking bit should have an expander at the bottom - which pushes the shoes apart when you operate the handbrake, and an adjuster at the top - which you operate by poking a screwdriver through a hole in the drum in order to turn a star-wheel. There's no hydraulic cylinder, as such. The adjuster and expander both have slots in each end which fit over the web of the shoes - so there's nothing other than the linings permanently attached to the shoes.

If yours are somehow different, could you take a digital photo of the brake assembly with the disc/drum removed and upload it somewhere and post a link to it here. Hopefully someone will then know what's going on!

Roger, Yes, you can send the picture to my email address, it is valid and I will look for it. The brakes are as you describe, the combination of disc eganged via a piston and the mechanical shoes.

The terms 'adjuster' and 'expander' seem to be more accurate than how I phrased it, as the two pieces fit together and there did not seem to be anything more to it.

The pictures may give me a better idea of what is there. However, the two components on either shoe didn't seem likely to disconnect from the each shoe itself...and at the time, I did not want to force anything if I was going to have to put the old components back on.

TIA, Dave

It's on its way to you.

I think you'll find that the slots in the ends of the expander and adjuster just push onto the shoes. If they don't want to come off, they may simply be rusted on, and you may need to use a bit more 'urge'.

Roger, I replied to your email and sent you a picture of what I see attached the brakes.

Thank you, Dave

When did you send it? It doesn't seem to have arrived yet. [I received your earlier reply, immediately after I sent you the parts list].

Roger, I sent it yesterday (6/16). When I did a "reply," I noticed that the address changed from one address to the another. I won't print the full addresses here, but the first started as watt.(removed) and the second was news(removed). I resent the email to both addresses this morning, 6/17.

Dave

I read your reply, and will need to disassemble the wheel again to confirm, but your observation is what I was looking for...I don't mind working to separate the pieces if that is what is necessary, but since I was unfamiliar with what it should look like, I was hesitant to take that step.

Thank you for your replies and insight.

Dave

Yes, that's intentional. I use a (disposable) Googlemail address for newsgroup purposes, but don't monitor Googlemail very often because I don't really expect many personal emails from Usenet users.

When I reply in Outlook to an email received by the Googlemail address, it goes out with an entirely different return address which *is* monitored regularly.

Good luck with getting it apart - but they are definitely separate components.