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I have a nut leftover

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• Jul 12, 2008

• #1

Righty, it's coming up to my first ever 4x4's mot and I can't get my head around how they're going to do the brake test on my Disco' TD5 auto.
How do they do the brake test on perm' 4wd motors? Do they have to disconnect something to let front and rear axles rotate independantly,
or do they put rollers under the wheels not under test?

Or am I just a mong?
Stu.

 

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stig

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• Jul 12, 2008

• #2

they should use a brake decelerometer on the road to test the brakes (60's technology)

 

I have a nut leftover

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• Jul 12, 2008

• #3

So when they go to put it on the rolling road I should panic and start screaming at them.

Cheers.
Stu.

 

Trewey

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• Jul 12, 2008

• #4

It's OK to use a single axle brake test rig, up to 5Km/hr. That's what they'll do, if they know their stuff.

 

VEGGIELANDEE

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• Jul 12, 2008

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I have a nut leftover said:

Righty, it's coming up to my first ever 4x4's mot and I can't get my head around how they're going to do the brake test on my Disco' TD5 auto.
How do they do the brake test on perm' 4wd motors? Do they have to disconnect something to let front and rear axles rotate independantly,
or do they put rollers under the wheels not under test?

Or am I just a mong?
Stu.

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When i took melandee in for an M.O.T.
They said"THERES A LOOSE NUT BEHIND THE WHEEL!!!"

 

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brnocz

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• Jul 12, 2008

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depends what system the use our locals use tapley meters and test them on the road simple gadget , they put it the cab drive down the road and apply the brakes the needle on the clock goes round and hence the the braking oercentage

 

I have a nut leftover

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• Jul 12, 2008

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Thanks for all the info guys.

How can they rotate one axle without the other trying to move as well?

Stu.

 

Bluestrobe

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• Jul 12, 2008

• #8

Put transfer box in neutral.

But as others have said more likely to use Tapley meter.

 

groenendael

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• Jul 12, 2008

• #9

As previously stated "the tapley meter"

 

choppa

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• Jul 12, 2008

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ahh thats the proper name is it ?? my m.o.t bloke calls it a swinginomeater thingy...

 

RSM72

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• Jul 12, 2008

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lrb2 said:

ahh thats the proper name is it ?? my m.o.t bloke calls it a swinginomeater thingy...

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That's wit a fort it wis called as well.....

 

groenendael

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• Jul 12, 2008

• #12

As Stig says"they use a decelerometer"
It just happens that "Tapley" is the name of the firm that made them and was printed on the face of the meter hence the name stuck.

 

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PASTMASTER

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• Jul 12, 2008

• #13

This has been covered in enormous depth before, but I'm not sure the search facility goes back that far. Most use a Tapley meter, with the slight possibility of snapping your half-shafts. There is a way of doing it on a rolling road, but most garages don't bother or don't know about it. My half-shafts have survived so far. And when he asks about the cam belt, explain sweetly that the TD5 doesn't have one (sigh).

 

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• Jul 12, 2008

• #14

See http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f8/testing-td5-handbrake-rolling-road-56764.html?highlight=brake+test. The earlier freds seem to have got deleted somehow.