Binding brakes
Posted: Mon May 10, 2021 3:01 pm
I've just had the 1961 Super Major for a year and noticed the near side brake housing was warmer than the other side, bought a new set of discs from Agriline fitted them and thought all would be well, again the brake housing was a little warm. Took it out yesterday for a 4-5 mile drive, applied the brakes at a road junction, all was well until a few hundred yards further down the road I was loosing power, pulled over to find plenty of smoke coming from the housing, it was red hot with peeling paint. Let it cool for a while, stamped on the brake pedal which must have freed it then headed home slowly. Took the outer cover off, with a straight edge across the discs were flush ie no gap under the straight edge. All the linkages are well lubricated and free, I put plenty of copper paste on the splines when I assembled the new discs, I did not adjust the stop screw when fitting the new discs. So what have I done wrong ? Hope some one on here can tell me the correct procedure for fitting and setting up the brakes. I have measured the balls, they are 0.874 dia. Puzzled as to why the brakes should lock on and not release. Any advice would be welcome.
John
John