Well, I've now replaced the master cylinder, all the wheel cylinders, front shoes and drums, all the flexi lines and quite a lot of the copper pipe. Bled twice this afternoon and *still* no frickin' pedal. Takes several pumps for the pedal to come up rather that the two that I had before. I...

Thanks for the encouragement. I've been away for a week (was supposed to be snowboarding but went to Bulgaria so it was slushboarding and getting quite pished on Bulgarian beer) going to give them a go tomorrow, I hope.

Nowt like flaring your own flanges!

Unashamed bump, still there...

There's bound to be quite a bit of laning activity when (if) it all dries out some. I'll certainly be heading out and happy to lead a few around if needs be! Just gotta get these shagging brakes sorted and Itchy through the MOT.

You're only here once so best spend your time doing what makes you happy, eh? Glad I've got a bit of Blacksheep bling for the back on its way to match the bumper on the front. Hope your future is brighter and you find something that you can do with as much flare as your fabrications.

Dammit, not going to be able to make Matchams on the 23rd :( Because I'll be snowboarding in Bulgaria :D But it appears that there is bugger all snow there :mad: But that's alright because the beer is dirt cheap :beer2: Hopefully catch up for an outing when I finally get the brakes sorted...

Cool, that should only cost a fiver to get collected by myHermes - they seem to be pretty good value. Can you PM me payment details and your address when it's packaged up and ready to go and I'll get 'em to come and pick it up. Cheers...

Just spoke to Dave at Famous Four and he had some good reasoning... It'll always be the weakest cylinder to fail. So my OSR went first, when bleeding for that I fecked the master cylinder, now that's working the front has gone as that was the next weakest. If I replace that then there is a good...

Still there and still cheap!

I'll take it! Could you package it and I'll arrange a courier to collect? What does it weigh? Cheers, Dom

I don't see how it can really effect bleeding. I'll post photos inside the drums when they're apart next. In the meantime, here's my Dorset axle stand. (I'd used all three of mine and didn't fancy going underneath to sort the flexi with the Landy up on a trolley jack only).

So, the next chapter in this saga.. Famous Four shipped me some new flexis direct from Bearmach and again they were wrong - apparently there's a whole batch labelled up wrong. So they sourced them from elsewhere and sent me... ... ...Britpart :eek: But they seem okay so I thought, feck it and...

No worries chap, you gave me a great introduction to the Dorset lanes! Here, have you any time spare over the weekend? Fancy giving us a hand bleeding these pesky frickin' brakes? Either tomorrow morning or Sunday post lunch, if the weather suits. Or sometime next week..? Aw feck, now I've...

Nice to see the fred back on topic of lanes rather than folk blethering on about their snorks and sunroofs and all that. Boomer is the man to talk to about getting out on the lanes - he dragged me round (not literally) on my first view outings and is a wealth of local knowledge and lore. Stick...

Should've let her burn..! That's the way I'm feeling at the mo! (Ssshhhh, I didna say that). Don't use a vacuum bleeder thing, they're ****e. Although I've got one here you can buy if you want! :rolleyes:

Here The wiring is a bit iffy but I believe it works...

I've learnt in my few years of Landy ownership: if you want a job doing proper, make a feck of it yourself!

I always thought that it was good practice to change the master cylinder if you're changing the slave, if one's gone the other is sure to follow soon enough. Dun't know the answer to your question though.

I didn't clamp all the flexis at the same time. Itchy has let me know by leaking all her brake fluid outa the front two flexi pipes. Famous Four had supplied me with the wrong flexi pipe kit and that seems to be where the problem lay. Good on 'em (hopefully), they've shipping replacements...