Morris Minor Owners Club

Fit one front wheel with a Wolseley drum and the other with a disc brake. Brake hard.
Whichever way the car pulls tells you which brakes are better.

Simples!

Would you fit a servo (and therefore modify the M/C)?

Pedant

'course the m/c mod only helps release the brakes afterwards.

True - so with 7psi clamping the pads to the discs how long will they last - and why don't the shoes stay clamped ????

Because they have return springs! Disc pads = no return springs. the 'pressure hold' on drum brakes just takes up the slack - it's effectively a 'self adjust' mechanism. But it leaks off during a long stop - so the first stroke of the brake pedal after a long stop can often be quite 'long'!

I suspect the drum would 'win' this test unless you fitted a servo only on the disc side, due to the self-servo effect of drum brakes.

People are taking this seriously just to wind me up right?
Kindof reverse psychology.
You lot are so unfair.
I'm going to throw myself in front of a standard braked car.

I had the misfortune to have to avoid a truck and trailer who must have decided that I wasn't really there. I was doing 100 kph, on a dry road, and found out that the brakes will lock up at that speed. All this with 8" drums. I just would not want to try it again too soon after.

Peetee wrote:Fit one front wheel with a Wolseley drum and the other with a disc brake. Brake hard.
Whichever way the car pulls tells you which brakes are better.

Simples!

I dont think the tablets are working any longer Peetee

Peetee wrote:People are taking this seriously just to wind me up right?
Kindof reverse psychology.
You lot are so unfair.
I'm going to throw myself in front of a standard braked car.

7" or 8" ?

Funnily enough I saw a very tidy Wolseley 1500 on Skye recently. It had disk brakes on the front!

alex_holden wrote:Funnily enough I saw a very tidy Wolseley 1500 on Skye recently. It had disk brakes on the front!

Doh !!!!
That's blown the justification then

Did you ask the owner if he had the old brakes lying around 'for recycling' ?

The owner wasn't around at the time.<br><br>

Actually, looking at the photo now, I'm not sure it was a 1500 at all...

Google suggests it's a Wolseley 1300.

Possibly had disc's as standard....?

Definitely - the Wolsley 1300 had the same absolutely useless disc brakes as the rest of the 1100/1300 range of cars! The front wheel bearings were very weak (penny pinching ball bearings when should have been taper rollers) - and the calipers seized up in no time. Mind you - the pads are the same ones used in my TR7!