[Healeys] Rear breaks locking

[Greg Mandas]

Will fixing the booster keep the rears from locking up before the fronts or
are there balancing adjustments I need to make or is it the nature of the
beast? 

Greg 
65BJ8 - original 38K miles

--- On Sun, 10/17/10, Randy Hicks
<Healey100M at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Randy Hicks <Healey100M at gmail.com>
>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Rear breaks locking
> To: "Greg Mandas"
<gmandas at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Team Healey List" <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Date:
Sunday, October 17, 2010, 9:14 PM
> Do you have work to do?????  Fix
> the
booster!  Geez.....
> 
> Randy
> 
> Randy Hicks
> www.austinhealey100m.com
>
'56 100 M
> '55 BN1 Dealer Le Mans
> '62 BN7 MkII
> '65 BJ8
> '53 MGTD
>
Healey100M at gmail.com
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> On Oct 17, 2010, at 8:42 PM,
Greg Mandas wrote:
> 
> > On my Sunday drive I had occasion to lock up the
>
brakes. A person in the on coming lane was in a hurry to
> turn left and since
I wasn't tailgating it must have
> appeared there was enough of a gap to
shoot.  For
> anyone from Connecticut, I was on RT-25 southbound at
> RT-136,
in Stepney. Nuff said.    
> > 
> > The rear wheels locked and the fronts
didn't. The
> brake booster on my BJ8 isn't working, so the brakes are
>
functional but hard.  I'm figuring the lack of a
> functional booster isn't a
factor.   
> > 
> > Is this locking typical or do I have work to do? 
> > 
> >
Greg
> > 65BJ8
> > 
> > Sent from my iPhone so please excuse typos and
>
brevity. 
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