Morris Minor Owners Club

Of course, the problem becomes FINDING a set of Wolseley drums.........been looking for months...

traveller is a 57 with smaller drums 7"

I've got a marina disk brake conversion to the front and 8'' at the back, is it worth upgrading the rear brakes?


Cheers,

Will.

Will,

Unless you are carrying very heavy loads on a regular basis, the standard rear brakes on a Minor are plenty good enough for all applications. Under very heavy braking, the 7" rears can lock up, and 8" rears could make that more likely, so I would not 'upgrade' them. I have 7" rears with Mintex competition linings, and a pressure limiting valve in the rear circuit to prevent that happening.

Discs and 8" drums are more than sufficient unless your Minor has been substantially modified. Even with a 1275 that's probably enough braking force...remember that early Minors had 7" drums all around, and if their brakes were in serviceable condition, they could stop the car fairly quickly.

Right, I'll probably leave it as it is then seeing as I'm only running it with a 1098. Unless that anti lock up mod is easy enough to do? do you have any info on that?


Cheers

Will

8" rear drums made for a very good handbrake action on my rally Minor - great for handbrake turns. And - they were nicely balanced with the 9" front drums. Trouble with discs is that they need high hydraulic pressure - and so the rears will lock up before the fronts are doing very much braking - nasty! Minis and 1100s were fitted with pressure regulating valves on the rear subbies (not the same one - but near enough) - hard to find now at reasonable cost. I had some - but sold them all a while back......

thanks for that, ,hopefully I won't be going too fast so I'll just leave them as it is.


Cheers,

Will

to lock up the rear breaks would they have to be servo'd ?

I doubt it, you can lock all four on drums without a servo on a dry road..

i think i locked front left and right rear once, that was fun! my shoes are correctly adjusted now

my rears are brand new and passed the mot but on the road i can only lock the front (other drivers enjoy pulling out in front of me)

i've got standard 1098 brakes but a (dreaded useless pointless heavy) servo helping them along, and 185 tyres, and i never brake hard enough to lock them up in the dry. the wet on the other hand... she gets a bit slithery then!