Be My Hero Brakes Pulling Run out of Ideas .

Brake shoes absorb oil fairly well and there's no safe way of getting it out. Is there any sign of oil inside the drums? When the hub oil seals go they dump oil straight onto the brakes and the only solution is a new oil seal and brake shoes. I'm off to buy some tomorrow....

Well the shoes don't seem greasy or contaminated and the there's no oil etc inside the drum.
Could some subtle invisible contamination be seeping out of the shoes and making them slippy ?
Seems unlike, I'm going to try degreasing the shoes ,
I'd usually use petrol but maybe I'll try a method posted on anther forum string boil them with detergent ?!
Paul

I totally cleaned up what seemed to be the slippy shoes , boiled with detergent so they really are squeaky clean. still they seem to be slipping , that is its pulling to the other side.

I then split the pairs one from each side on each wheel. . assuming if there is one bad set them this should equal things up .

But the pulling has moved to the other side.

I'm getting really confused now!

could be burned shoe if compound over heated some stage it can get hard and loose its friction abilities,not allways visible, can be that matalurgy of drum or compound on shoe are not consistend. get new shoes cheapest option

Front shoes and drums £40.00
Rear shoes and drums £36.00
( Buckley bros, not genuine but hey ho )

Fitting time 2 Hours

Messing about swapping bits around not knowing which bit is knackered £ ????

Time.. days/weeks

Conclusion... the lot amounts to less than a dozen packet of fags.... and driving your landy is a lot more fun....

Jesus... I've just discovered a cure for smoking related cancer !!!!!!!!! lol

Yes I'm thinking about that , but not totally convinced it is the shoes / drums otherwise the swapping should work , shouldn't it ? Also the shoes were new last year , and show no signs of bad contamination or burning

I have had a load of trouble in the past with patent parts not fitting properly and causing more problems.! and original parts cost a lot more .

Right....so you have swapped them over and it has the same effect. have you done that for both front and rear?

Whn you have adjusted them up using the adjuster on the back plate...when you spin the wheels, do they spin freely or have some resistance? The same feel on each side?

Dodgy cylinders perhaps...are you using genuine? I have found the non-genuine ones to be quite rubbish. I have found the non-genuine drums and shoes to be fine though.

Check again for air in the system on all four corners - does any air come out at all when you bleed them?

Hi
When I swapped the pair of shoes over then the pulling swaps over too so on the face of it ,it's the shoes but , their squeaky clean !
I guess I'll replace the drums and shoes.

Good to hear you have found non-genuine shoes and drums OK , I too have had bad experiences with non-genuine wheel cylinders.

There is some problem with the master cylinder, when you hold brakes on you lose pressure so I think an internal leak ( I'm not losing fluid ) . But this shouldn't have anything to do with pulling should it ?

Paul