[Healeys] Rear breaks locking

[Richard Ewald]

Whenever I have had a car with locking drum brakes the first thing to do is
to pull the drums and check for either leaking wheel cylinders or a leaking
axle seal.  Any contaminates on the brake shoes will make them grab and
lock.
Rick

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Greg Mandas <gmandas at yahoo.com> 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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