"Fitting Fantastic Wolseley Brakes"

[grumpygrandad]

long ttime since i did hand brake turns as i said just curios maybee in the futer.got to watch the money at the mommentas i have just bought an mgb,gt, nothing to spend on it as its ok,wouldnt mind converting to chrome bumpers at some point,,, we will see,,,grandad

[bmcecosse]

Crikey - MGB GT !! I'm sure I saw some chrome bumpers on ebay a few minutes ago for a B !!

[PSL184]

Thanks chaps - I'll check with the suppliers you mentioned.

[bmcecosse]

Did you actually buy seal kits from ESM - grumpyg ?

[Peetee]

I emptied and filled my rear shocks on the car. They were refilled with 20W applied through a piece of washer hose attached to a syringe.

[mike.perry]

I took nearly a week to fit my Wolseley front brakes. I stripped the swivel pins down and removed the hubs to get the back plates off which were a bit tight as were the brake cylinders. I had the drums skimmed and the back plates modified to take my Minor cylinders. A phone call to a friend in the Minor restoration business secured a set of Wolseley front brake shoes. I found a few brake pipes to join the wheel cylinders but they had the wrong flares so I had two pipes made up.
Whilst I was waiting for bits to arrive I searched through my spares boxes and retrieved all my brake parts and put them together in one large tin. I even found a new unused master cylinder a didn't know I had.
The only parts I was short of were two brake return springs, however by using a Minor spring and a Wolseley spring on each side and fitting the Minor springs in the closer holes in the shoes after a bit of levering I managed to fit the shoes.
After the reassembling and suspension greasing (I always squirt a bit of grease in whilst the wheels are off), I attended to the bleeding ritual.
I had a spot of trouble balancing up the adjusters, the n/s brakes kept dragging, but eventually sorted that out. There was still too much play in the brake pedal for my liking so I took up the master cylinder pedal adjuster a couple of turns, just enough to avoid back pressure.
Now for the MOT. It passed.
Two days later the car started pulling to the left. A strip down of the o/s brakes revealed that the wheel cylinders which had been perfectly ok on the Minor brakes had started leaking and so were replaced.
So far so good.

[bmcecosse]

Ah well the 'quick fit' assumes everything is ready to go!

[grumpygrandad]

Did you actually buy seal kits from ESM - grumpyg ?

hello my mate got them from ems look on there web you will see them listed,,grandad

[Kevin]

Could you rename this thread "Fitting Fantastic Wolseley Brakes"

Ok will do

[linearaudio]

I emptied and filled my rear shocks on the car. They were refilled with 20W applied through a piece of washer hose attached to a syringe.

Thats worth a "useful tips" mention surely

[grumpygrandad]

hello thanks to who ever updated heading fantastic wolseley brakes , ,,,grandad

[linearaudio]

And not a single comment from the pro-disc brigade! Now we're on a roll Suppose there's no chance the Minx backplates fit? Just thinking about when we have robbed up the last Wolseley!

[bigginger]

Pro discs doesn't equal anti drums...
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[grumpygrandad]

And not a single comment from the pro-disc brigade! Now we're on a roll Suppose there's no chance the Minx backplates fit? Just thinking about when we have robbed up the last Wolseley!

yes its nice to stick to the item or questions put forward without being overdosed on something that is not relevant at the time,,,grandad

[bmcecosse]

Dunno about the Minx backplates LA - but how many Minxes have you seen lately! But obviously since the shoes look to be right for W use - the backplates must be essentially the same - 4 cylinders with internal adjusters - since the shoes have the notch for the snail cam. And I'm sure I have seen the reapir kits for W cylinders as also being suitable for Minx cylinders! Depends really how the Minx backplates are fixed to the suspension - but that could probably by sorted out without too much trouble. The drums won't be 4" pcd - but again easy enough to re-drill drums ! I look forward to your progress report in this matter!

[linearaudio]

Hope I don't need to go down that route! Just thinking that the Wolseley drums come up on ebay etc sometimes, but ultimately it would be the backplates that would stop us flooding the Moggy community with Wolseley brake conversions! You're right though- when did you last see ANY Hillman?

[bmcecosse]

The last set of W brakes on ebay went for something like £73 ? - and grandad thought his were expensive - he got a bargain !

[grumpygrandad]

And not a single comment from the pro-disc brigade! Now we're on a roll Suppose there's no chance the Minx backplates fit? Just thinking about when we have robbed up the last Wolseley!

hello dont know but see on hilllman spares minx 1/2/3 rear wheel cylinders from these models also fit wolselet 1500 so just maybee the back plates will fit open to those who may know,,grandad

[bmcecosse]

Yes -so same cylinders and same shoes - now - supplier of backplates required! Do they actually HAVE any cylinders - I can't find new W cylinders anywhere - just re-sleeved ones at great expense.

[grumpygrandad]

The last set of W brakes on ebay went for something like £73 ? - and grandad thought his were expensive - he got a bargain !

yes i know now the price was good the seals were about £11.00 not checked packet but it may include rear seals mechanic charged me £10.00 for shoes which are unused, as my mate who uses my garage to renovate his rover p2 fitted them so no charge.,,grandad