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[davexdavexdave]

my mini failed its mot on its rear brakes. now i have another mini which i am gonna swap the brakes over from. how hard is this gonna be?? what does it involve??

[ANDY J]

my mini failed its mot on its rear brakes. now i have another mini which i am gonna swap the brakes over from. how hard is this gonna be?? what does it involve??

hi mate to be honest it would be better to just buy new 1s rear shoes and rear cylinders only come to £20 thats it, even with new spacered drums its only £45 all in so is it really worth it?
if it was me just buy the new stuff

[davexdavexdave]

i have absolutely no money what so ever. all the money went in prepairing it for the mot.

[ANDY J]

i have absolutely no money what so ever. all the money went in prepairing it for the mot.

:'(
ok then yes you can just swap them over so long as everything is good and usable

[miniboo]

what did it fail on as it may just need the adjusters tweaking to tighten the brakes up.

[davexdavexdave]

nah one of them didnt work at all and the other had 13 pounds of pressure

[miniboo]

so it should just be a case of changing the shoes and adjusting them up unless you have knacked wheel cylinders aswell which again aint to hard to do

[davexdavexdave]

yeah its the wheel cylinders as i have changed the shoes and adjusted them. shall i just replace the cylinders from the other mini or shall i just chane the whole rear brake mechanism???

[nomininolife]

Did the parking brake pass and the foot brake fail?

[davexdavexdave]

no they both failed.

[nomininolife]

Adjustment/shoes and cylinders then

[davexdavexdave]

how do i change the cylinders??? is it faily easy?? im only an amature but i have fitted my remvable front and rebuilt the front after a crash by my self so i think im not a complete mechanical nightmare.

[nomininolife]

There lies another story.

The fitting of wheel cylinders is fine until you get to the 'E' clip

There is a fine art to fitting these, and for me it is the use of a couple of flat blade screwdrivers and a small hammer.

[davexdavexdave]

well lets just say i am easily agetated by things like this and it usually results in me needin more money so will i have to touch these if i swap the whole system over???

[minidan]

There lies another story.

The fitting of wheel cylinders is fine until you get to the 'E' clip

oh no not the 'E' clips! brings back nightmares lol