Wolseley 1500 9" Brake Drums Availability

[mowogg]

I had an issue with the modern linings on Wolselsy fronts..They can take a while to bed in. I would keep driving it and they will slowly get better. Need to do circa 250 miles I suspect t before they are bedded in

[svenedin]

I had an issue with the modern linings on Wolselsy fronts..They can take a while to bed in. I would keep driving it and they will slowly get better. Need to do circa 250 miles I suspect t before they are bedded in

Thank you. That's a lot more than I would have expected so I will persevere. I want to do about 500 miles so I can do the first engine oil change before the trip to France.

Stephen

[svenedin]

I had done about 100 miles and I readjusted the front brakes. They are now excellent and far superior to the old 8" brakes.

I think the issue was that when I fitted the new shoes I had to back off 2 clicks or the shoes would bind for part of the rotation. On readjusting after 100 miles they will now not bind when backing off 1 click. I asked the workshop chaps at ESM about this because I was down there today for tracking and headlight beam adjustment. They said they take a file to any high spots on new brake shoes if they behave as mine did and they will adjust up perfectly right away. I should have done that!

The other very striking difference with a rebuilt engine was I did 90 miles today and used 2 gallons of petrol. That's more like it.

Stephen

[philthehill]

I would take the high spots off the brake shoes as a matter of course way back. Even more important when you had to rivet the linings to the shoe. Back then there were very few bonded shoes available and they were not reliable as many a linings detached themselves from the shoe leading to brake failure.
Thankfully the glue for attaching the lining to the shoe has considerably improved leading to near non failure of the glue.
I also used to file down the leading edge of the lining to help bed them in.
I recently managed (for old times sake) to get the NU-TEXA special tool that I used way back for riveting brake linings to the shoe.
I have penchant for collecting old tools that I used to use in the BMC garage in the late 1960s early 1970s especially those Sykes Pickavant and Churchill special tools used for repairing the Morris Minor.

[Myrtles Man]

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So my early conclusion is that all those posts from BMCEcosse were basically a bit hyperbolic..........he went on an on about his Wolseley 1500 front brakes. Well I actually not only can compare but I have his brake parts. The very same. They are alright.........m'eh

it is very disappointing when it turn out that a long time contributor, sadly deceased, has not been entirely honest.


[/quote]

I had done about 100 miles and I readjusted the front brakes. They are now excellent and far superior to the old 8" brakes.

Apologies in order?

[svenedin]

Yes an apology is in order. Roy was correct that the Wolseley brakes are very good so I am sorry I doubted you old chap and rest assured that your brakes are still going! I didn’t like the cheapskate use of TR7 shoes and I thought that was going too far to save a few pennies. I also do stand by being annoyed that Roy advocated using Minor cylinders in the Wolseley backplates but only years later admitted he didn’t think it was a good idea at all because it caused his rear brakes to lock too easily. He was going to go back to Wolseley cylinders but sadly never had time to do it.

Stephen

[svenedin]

Just in case anybody is interested, PowerTrack Ltd will re-line shoes with Ferodo bonded linings. This is expensive at £22 +VAT per shoe but given the mileage most of us do, replacing brake shoes is a rare event. Ferodo/Mintex linings are regarded by many as being the best that were available but they are no longer available off the shelf so re-lining is the only option unless you can find rare NOS items. Contact at PowerTrack is Paul Hunt.

https://www.powertrackbrakes.co.uk

Stephen