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Congrats Chas, only to be expected!
Chas
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Mine is up at 8.30am tomorrow then its on its way to france in the afternoon. Unfortunately we have to go to a PROPER mot center and not the local dodgy garage. Have to say its quite nerve wrecking sitting there watching your truck getting is joints rattled and watching the layer of crud you forgot to scrape off the top of the axle snowing down on the inspector. We don't get advisories either it's just an all or nothing process
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It is fairly stringent... much more so than a UK MOT as far as I can see. Hope it passes GW, no gremlins hiding! I'm doing it the opposite way, mine use due it's test a few days after we come home from France this year
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Passed! Handbrake was V tight leaving the house and outside the center 40 mins later it was all the way to the roof but when it grabbed it was 50% with min being 30%. Having rebuilt all the calipers service brake was up to 76% which is even more than my accord with only 2-3% in the imbalance really chuffed about this actually. Still onwards and southward....
Another MOT flown through with no advisories. And the first time with the same MOT tester I've known for years in his new workshop on the rolling road brake tester rather than down the road with the meter in the footwell and all is well with the brakes I rebuilt this year. 
Another MOT flown through with no advisories. And the first time with the same MOT tester I've known for years in his new workshop on the rolling road brake tester rather than down the road with the meter in the footwell and all is well with the brakes I rebuilt this year.
Good stuff Rich, it’s good knowing you got it right!
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I thought I'd resurrect a thread rather than starting a new one.
My truck was booked in for an MoT a couple of days after getting back from my holidays where we'd done 3,500 miles to / from and around the Outer Hebrides. I didn't have time to check anything before the MoT but I knew the ornamental handbrake was going to be an issue.
Sure enough, it failed on the handbrake but it also failed on worn lower bushes on the shock absorbers.
Of more concern I got a dangerous defect of the OSR brake pads being below 1.5mm. The garage suggested it could be a sticky caliper.
I duly ordered some new pads and a caliper repair kit which I started to fit yesterday.
I took the brake cylinder off to get the pads out and discovered...
...that there was nothing wrong with the brakes. I've checked the others just in case he was facing the other way when he wrote the failure down.
I was a bit miffed with the garage. Did the tester just have an aberration? Cynically, they could have been on a work creation scheme.
There's little point in going into battle over it as any 50/50 decision in the future would definitely not go in my favour but it was nice to think my pre-holiday fettling wasn't in vain.
The shock absorber bushes are separate parts - OMEB36 if you have OME shocks. The mounting bolts came out without a fight which was good news.
As the cylinders were off and I'd bought a seal kit, I popped one of the pistons out to have a look. Internally it's all pretty clean and shiny which is good. What wasn't good was getting the new cylinder boot to sit in place whilst I put the piston back. The manual suggests putting the piston in first and then pushing the boot in with a screwdriver. That might be fine with a new shiny cylinder but mine isn't. I put the boot on the cylinder first and then used a collect of feeler gauges on the other end to spread the rubber far enough apart to insert the cylinder. It was a five minute task that took me about four hours! It was sort of Land Cruiser gynaecology.
By following the manual, the handbrake is less ornamental and the lever stops before it reaches the top of its travel. Everything seems to be adjusted to the max so I think new cables might be required in the near future.
Once the shock absorber bushes arrive, it should be a five minute job to put them in and hopefully a new MoT will be forthcoming shortly after that.
It was faultless whilst we were away and interestingly I seem to have cured (touching wood) the occasional nothing happens when the key is turned issue by cleaning the battery terminals and clamps.
My truck was booked in for an MoT a couple of days after getting back from my holidays where we'd done 3,500 miles to / from and around the Outer Hebrides. I didn't have time to check anything before the MoT but I knew the ornamental handbrake was going to be an issue.
Sure enough, it failed on the handbrake but it also failed on worn lower bushes on the shock absorbers.
Of more concern I got a dangerous defect of the OSR brake pads being below 1.5mm. The garage suggested it could be a sticky caliper.
I duly ordered some new pads and a caliper repair kit which I started to fit yesterday.
I took the brake cylinder off to get the pads out and discovered...
...that there was nothing wrong with the brakes. I've checked the others just in case he was facing the other way when he wrote the failure down.
I was a bit miffed with the garage. Did the tester just have an aberration? Cynically, they could have been on a work creation scheme.
There's little point in going into battle over it as any 50/50 decision in the future would definitely not go in my favour but it was nice to think my pre-holiday fettling wasn't in vain.
The shock absorber bushes are separate parts - OMEB36 if you have OME shocks. The mounting bolts came out without a fight which was good news.
As the cylinders were off and I'd bought a seal kit, I popped one of the pistons out to have a look. Internally it's all pretty clean and shiny which is good. What wasn't good was getting the new cylinder boot to sit in place whilst I put the piston back. The manual suggests putting the piston in first and then pushing the boot in with a screwdriver. That might be fine with a new shiny cylinder but mine isn't. I put the boot on the cylinder first and then used a collect of feeler gauges on the other end to spread the rubber far enough apart to insert the cylinder. It was a five minute task that took me about four hours! It was sort of Land Cruiser gynaecology.
By following the manual, the handbrake is less ornamental and the lever stops before it reaches the top of its travel. Everything seems to be adjusted to the max so I think new cables might be required in the near future.
Once the shock absorber bushes arrive, it should be a five minute job to put them in and hopefully a new MoT will be forthcoming shortly after that.
It was faultless whilst we were away and interestingly I seem to have cured (touching wood) the occasional nothing happens when the key is turned issue by cleaning the battery terminals and clamps.
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Get your pass and tell them you might come back when he is sacked .
This illustrates a point very well.
Never take anyone’s word for something being wrong or right for that matter. See it for yourself. It’s one of the essentials of troubleshooting.
Never take anyone’s word for something being wrong or right for that matter. See it for yourself. It’s one of the essentials of troubleshooting.
chadr
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I'm sure there is a sticky about getting the best out of your handbrake on here.
Add : Found it after some searching - it's in the 90 section but I believe applies to 90s/80s and perhaps 120s too. Anyway, might be worth a read
Add : Found it after some searching - it's in the 90 section but I believe applies to 90s/80s and perhaps 120s too. Anyway, might be worth a read
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Paddler Ed
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Put my 80 in for it's RWC (rough equivalent of MOT) the other day, and the tester who is a mate, did comment that "like every Land Cruiser it has a power steering pump". Luckily no comment on the handbrake (which is a bit ordinary), but we tend to leave them in gear as a just in case...
Did laugh when I got the "blue slip" for the 40 and the tester (again someone we know) told me to sort the handbrake out - I did point out it was a Land Cruiser, and what did he expect?!
Did laugh when I got the "blue slip" for the 40 and the tester (again someone we know) told me to sort the handbrake out - I did point out it was a Land Cruiser, and what did he expect?!
