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Subject Topic: Squeeling Brakes Post Reply Post New Topic
Personplodder1
16/6/2011 at 4:42pm
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Ive just noticed that as I break , down hill mostly my van brakes squeel. Are they easy to replace as with a car drum brakes. Will they simply need cleaning off. Do I have to jack both wheel off the ground to work on the brakes and where do you buy replacement shoes from.

 

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Any advice would be helpful. ta.


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I have never managed to wear the brake shoes out, How many miles do you do?

When was the caravan last serviced? it could be brake dust.

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Personmichael
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usually dust or odd times you can get stones trapped onto the pads and this makes them squeal very bad.try a good brake cleaner spray on them before stripping down.

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Could be a bit of dust, probably just wants adjusting though. You will need a torque wrench and replacement one shot nut if you remove the drum. You can adjust them without removing the drum (or even the wheel)

You won't get a stone in the brakes, they have drum brakes so no pads and the shoes are right inside the drum, not nearly as exposed as pads on the car. Squeaking on drum brakes is usually because there is excessive travel and need adjusting up, especially if someone has previously adjusted them up on the hand brake rather than doing it correctly and adjusting the shoes.

It's difficult to explain here how to adjust the brakes and I really wouldn't want to explain it in case you misunderstood me and ended up with brake failure. The Caravan Manual from Haynes shoes how to do it with good photographs. It's well worth buying if it saves you the labour charged by your dealer then you are probably going to be financially better off after just doing one job yourself.

I've never actually taken the drum off my caravan, but looking at the pictures in the manual, they are basically the same but have the cams in them for the reversing so are slightly more complicated than most cars. If you do take the drum off the shoes are not going to leap out so if it looks too complicated you can always drop the drum and wheel back on and get the dealer to do it. You always have the other side to look at if you get stuck on reassembly. Never strip both sides down just in case.

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there not that difficult, like you say, one side at a time, what you gain in the autoreverse, you loose in handbrake linkage.
the hardest bit with mine was getting my head in the arch to back it off so I could get the drum off.


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As above, it's normally break dust, if you service or have serviced and cleaned the break hub's it stops for a while, but comes back again.

Not sure why it does it more with caravans than cars, answers on a postcard.

Tony



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 You will need a torque wrench and replacement one shot nut if you remove the drum.

i do not think he will have one that goes to the required torque of 290+ - 10Nm (214 + - 7.5lbs/ft) for the oneshot nut.



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