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Well hopefully I've done it folks. I took the driver's side wheel and drum off and checked the direction the ratchet was moved when Mrs hovismon pressed the brake pedal. It wound the adjuster INWARDS! So I took the adjuster toothed nut off, flipped it round, reinstalled everything and now...

Cheers Alibro, if all else fails I might just take you up on that offer! Tomorrow, if it's dry enough, and the person who's coming to see if Mrs hovismon is fit for work doesn't hold us up, I'll take the suspect adjuster off and flip the nut about. I think that's the problem as I've seen lots...

Had another attempt at beating my head off the brakes today. Thanks for all the replies above, unfortunately they're all redundant. Shoes are only a year old, and a good brand, I don't do cheap brakes ever. Drums are not worn, clean, no lip and round. Cylinder is working freely as it should...

I haven't gone away you know! Shoryuken, yep, I've checked the operation of those levers, which part the shoes when the handbrake is pulled, and mine are fine and dandy. This is the first attempt I've managed after a week of either heavy rain or being away for the day. I put the shoes back...

Yeah he gave the handbrake a right tug, and it scored 15%, pass was 16%. The thing worrying me is that I can't find any problems at all with the system. Cables are moving freely, no leaks, no gunge inside the drums, good shoes etc. Only a possible loose retaining pin is the worst fault I've...

Thanks for this guineafowl, very helpful indeed. I do have the drums off, I've taken the shoes off and cleaned and oiled the adjusters. As I said, the insides of the drums are pretty good, I only changed the shoes a year ago. Although, when I did take the drums off, the driver's side had a...

That's very interesting, the 2-wheel, 4-wheel bit. It's tested on a 2-wheel set of rollers but it makes sense that the freelander's drive system doesn't fully suit. I'm not going to complain, although I can't say I won't still moan.... Firstly I'm going to check the handbrake system from head...

I'm usually quite philosophical about it though, I use the MOT test to highlight things I need to fix rather than guessing. I've no qualms usually but this bloke seemed to be nit-picking.

Let's just say I'm starting to believe in conspiracy theories........

Yep well, that's a few clicks more than I've ever achieved GrumpyGel. So it can be done..... Bugger. They use a rolling road setup over here Nodge, He sits in the driver seat and me in the passenger seat and he tries all the brakes in turn, and a big screen gives all the values for each brake...

So, just failed the MOT. After all the work I put into it. One of the fails was the handbrake, I got a figure of 15% on the machine, the pass is 16% or above. I can't moan about that, it's there in black and white. However, the Examiner also said there wasn't much play with my handbrake...

I know mate, me and the wife were really looking forward to the day out too. Hopefully the next one, if there is one.... Did nobody come up from the South? Anyway, MOT today and...... she failed. All the skinned elbows and knuckles and the bastards failed me!

Never thought of that Nodge, if I had I would have very seriously considered it..... Saturday morning I dropped it into the wonderful Nick McKeown at Mid Ulster 4x4 whilst I was there collecting the droplinks, bushes and bolts. A few hours later he rang to say he'd got the bolts removed!! I...

Subframe duly removed, so it's sitting in front of me with the bolts all readily accessible. Still, I've tried drilling, I've tried that Irwin extractor set, I've tried internal bolt removers (which broke) and I even tried welding a nut to the ground-off bolt head but it wouldn't stick. I hate...

OK so I bought that Irwin removal set, still can't get the effing nuts loosened! They seem too soft now for the removal tool to properly grip. Looks like I'll have to loosen the subframe now to get better access. Is the subframe known as 'rear beam' on rave?

Make's sense Nodge. Still can't reach the *@!!%*ing bolts properly though....... If I go in from the underneath I'm working by feel, and if I go in from above I need 6 foot long arms.

I think I'll try to hammer a 9mm socket on since the bolts are soft, I've ordered replacements anyway. Funny you mention the plastic disk Nodge, there's a piece of plastic on the bar where the passenger side bush came off. It was to the inside of the bush so it did sweet eff all in preventing...

The bush I did get off looked ok, not mint but not too bad either. I think I replace things for peace of mind, those things I haven't a clue when they were fitted. The actual anti-roll bar had also moved over to the driver's side a bit so I want to straighten it up a touch too while I'm at it...

Thanks for replies. I was hoping not to drop the subframe, but.... Looking at the bolts from above, they aren't too bad looking, not overly rusty and they don't really look rounded, they are just "a bit smaller". As I say, the two bolts I did get out look the same, and they're a perfect 10mm...

2001 1.8 Had a bit of a knocking noise coming from the front but she still handled fine. I had a wee look underneath and found one of the ARB droplinks had come apart, one that was replaced only 2 years ago! So, droplinks ordered and I want to change the ARB bushes whilst I'm at it. Decided...