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scottc2010

205 1.6 Rear Girling Drum Locking

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scottc2010

Hi,

I have just had new rear shoes and pads and also new cylinders and brake cables fitted to my gti which is all standard. One of the brakes though is locking and getting hot but the other is fine. Even with the offending shoe completely slackened off it is locking slightly. They are the Girling type brakes, could this be a master cylinder problem or is this possibly something else?

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Anthony

Very unlikely to be a master cylinder issue given that both rear brakes are fed via a single MC port using a shared compensator.

 

Possible it's a rear hose that's breaking down internally, but seems more likely it's something internal to the problemsome drum if it's only occurred since you changed the parts.

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scottc2010

Thanks, i'll check the hose as the problem was happening before and after changing the brakes

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welshpug

I would check the roundness of the drum too.

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Tom Fenton

Could also be the wheel cylinder seized/tight. To be honest for what they cost it may be worth changing as a matter of course. The issue being that if they start to leak they saturate your new shoes with fluid until they are wrecked.

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scottc2010

Thanks for this, I have new cylinders, but will check this and the drum too

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