Chet Zerlin
Jedi Trainee
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Hi all!
Here's the issue:
My right rear brake shoes are not releasing but the left rear brakes are fine. When the right is locked up I can use the adjustment bolt to loosen the brake shoe and the wheel turns again but when I then press on the brake pedal it locks up again. Clearly something in the right rear brake is not releasing the fluid pressure.
In my 100-6 there is one main metal line going from the master cylinder to a junction and from there a rubber line goes to a"splitter". From that splitter there are two separate metal brake lines - one to each brake. Since the left rear brake is working fine it's not this rubber line that is the problem because that line supplies fluid to both wheels.
I know that usually the culprit would be a rubber line going to the brake that was collapsing or clogged so as to not release the pressure but since in my car those lines are metal tubes and not rubber could the problem be that the brake "wheel cylinder" inside my drum brake assembly is not releasing the pressure?
Or is it possible that the metal line from the "splitter" that attaches to the "wheel cylinder" the culprit?
Has anyone had similar issues and resolved them?
Anyone know how to test the wheel cylinder?
Thanks for your help!
Chet
Here's the issue:
My right rear brake shoes are not releasing but the left rear brakes are fine. When the right is locked up I can use the adjustment bolt to loosen the brake shoe and the wheel turns again but when I then press on the brake pedal it locks up again. Clearly something in the right rear brake is not releasing the fluid pressure.
In my 100-6 there is one main metal line going from the master cylinder to a junction and from there a rubber line goes to a"splitter". From that splitter there are two separate metal brake lines - one to each brake. Since the left rear brake is working fine it's not this rubber line that is the problem because that line supplies fluid to both wheels.
I know that usually the culprit would be a rubber line going to the brake that was collapsing or clogged so as to not release the pressure but since in my car those lines are metal tubes and not rubber could the problem be that the brake "wheel cylinder" inside my drum brake assembly is not releasing the pressure?
Or is it possible that the metal line from the "splitter" that attaches to the "wheel cylinder" the culprit?
Has anyone had similar issues and resolved them?
Anyone know how to test the wheel cylinder?
Thanks for your help!
Chet