[Healeys] locked parking brake?

[David Nock]

You will find the rear shoes are wet with oil and have suctioned them  
self to the brake drums. The other problem may be that the shoes are  
rusted to the drums. This was caused because the car was parked for a  
long time with the handbrake on. The only fix is you are going to  
have to pull the rear drums and possible just clean it all up or  
rebuild the rear brakes.




David Nock
British Car Specialists
Stockton Ca 95205
209-948-8767

www.britishcarspecialists.com
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On Aug 30, 2007, at 1:05 PM, retroagogo at comcast.net wrote:

> Hello,
>
>        I'm new to the list.  I just received my dad's 60 BT7 and  
> have a problem.  He parked the car 2 years ago in the garage with  
> the parking brake on and there were no known issues with the brakes  
> at that time.  When we tried to pull it out, the rear brakes seemed  
> to be locked up.  Could this have been the parking brake locking  
> up, and if so, is it easy to fix?  I don't really know much about  
> the car yet, but plan to get to know it very well over time.