Any Body fitted 1 of Those Disc Brake Hand/Brake

I have a 99 Discovery 2, Always Had a hand brake that don't work,Every Mot test the morning of the MOT i have to get the local garage to remove the hand brake drum,clean it burn the oil off the shoes before I have the test.Week later hand brake don't work ..Been like this for the last 5 years..Oh Yes also every year at the same time I also have fitted while they do the hand brake a NEW flange and oil seal.So this year I want to fit a £250 Disc brake and pad.With new hand brake cable for the Mod....... I think its called X-Brake Disk Handbrake Any body else got one fitted and can offer some advois ?? DON'T forget every year I have new flange and oil seal fitted.With a disk brake im told any oil will just drip on the ground and not trouble the Disk Brake.

If you've fitted a new flange and seal every year, I'd be looking for worn output shaft bearings, bearings incorrectly shimmed, output shaft splines worn or find a better garage to do the repairs...:behindsofa:

i got a X-Brake Disk Handbrake on mine and works very well and goes thro the mot each time with out doin anything to it ..

The set up is usually found on a thwaites dumper.Or basically anything with a Turner gearbox coupled to a Perkins engine

Thanks for the info,I think it must be the shaft,It goes to different garages even a well known one.I looked on the DVLA site and my past MOTs. Now it is a 1999 and from its first 3 year old MOT it has been plagued all its life with the fault,So I recon that output shaft must of been faulty from new,My disco has 90,000 miles on it,Ive now made my mind up i will fit that disk type handbrake then any oil can fall on the floor.Ive had the disco over 5 years now and you would of thought by now that it would of run out of oil in the box oil !!!

I'd have thought that if the rear output seal is leaking all over your drum handbrake then it'll still spatter onto a disc too just by the draught effect when driving ... or am I missing something?

with you on that one joe. would it not be better to cure the oil leak as the system will have to be stripped to do the mod any way,

just my opinion of course, others may differ:fencing:


ron

I phoned the company up who makes those disk brakes,He said dead easy to fit ,You only have to remove the drum and that propshaft then bolt the new brake system on refit propshaft and with a new matching hand brake cable jobs a gud un.He also said the disk can be covered in mud and crap and it still works.Plus MOT time I would only need to wipe the disk clean out side the Mot place,, where now every year for about 5 years i pay about £130 to have the hand brake done.So for 11 months 3 weeks of every year i don't have a working hand brake.

I've had a X-Brake on mine for years, works perfectly even when it's caked in mud.

Spyderman said:

I've had a X-Brake on mine for years, works perfectly even when it's caked in mud.

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Except when the pin breaks and you have No hand brake!

We're on our second Discovery 1 and also own a series 3. The standard drum handbrake has worked pefectly on all three vehicles inspite of oil leaking into them and with very little maintainance and all still on their original shoes. They all pass the MOT and hold on the test slope at our club site.

To be honest, I'd be looking at the problem causing the leaking oil rather than the handbrake, because even if you put a disc brake in place, you'll still have an oil leak which needs fixing.

If you don't regularly go wading or get it caked in mud, simply cure the leak and save yourself £250.

I work next door to mot station and they don't test land rover handbrakes

But surely to repair the slight oil leak, Don't the box have to come out and be striped?Then the shaft or box would need replacing,I think that would cost a few hundred pounds.As I say every year for 5 years its had a new oil seal and flange,First year you have H/B shoes cleaned oil seal and flange, Now second year you think was that oil seal and flange faulty?Yea it must of been faulty you have it done again ,Then third year you have it done again,Now you think ok one more year then i will get rid of it,And so its gone on.So i hope you can see where im coming from.I agree that if 4 or 5 years ago i thought this was going to mess me about for a number of years then yes i would of got a recon box fitted.I also think that the output shaft must of been faulty from the day my Discovery was made.

Read this: http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f41/transfer-box-front-output-bearing-oil-seal-renewal-81771.html

Its a 20 minute job

DEFENDER90-DAZ said:

Read this: http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f41/transfer-box-front-output-bearing-oil-seal-renewal-81771.html

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why would you read that, if its the handbrake rear oil seal that is the problem?

Thanks very much for showing me the job,Im not to technical so i have payed to have new oil seal and flange every year...What you have shown me makes sense. Just annoys me that the different garages never asked me if i want that doing...So that would proberly work out cheaper than a disk brake ?? So I need .... 1 oil seal 1 bearing 1 flange 1 output shaft Do you happen to know how much a output shaft is ??Wished you lived near to me i pay you then to do it..Once again many thanks Allen Henley in Arden.

I know a good Landy mechanic in Coventry who will look after you if you want to pay somebody to do it?
Quite a few forum members on here use him.

One other thing i thought the hand brake drum and shoes were wrapped around that end of the prop shaft.So before getting to that flange don't you have to take all the prop hand brake drum an bits off etc.??