[Mgs] confessions of a LBC lover

Max Heim mvheim at sonic.net
Thu Jul 5 18:06:14 MDT 2012


Hmm, this sort of thing happens with drum brakes, but it's hard to see how
something could get caught in a rotor. Could it have been the rear?



on 7/5/12 4:40 PM, Paul Root at ptrmgb at gmail.com wrote:

> We're out of town at my brothers this week And I drove his non-MG  lbc that
> will remain nameless (ok, its a 1980 and  starts with a T and ends with a 7!).
> Thing is I really like the  car. Always have.
> 
> 
> Anyway, something strange is happening with the brakes.  He notice a little
> clunking noise, that seemed to come from the front left.  Then a pulsing
> coming from the brakes.
> 
> I drove it home, and didn't have the noise or the pulse on the first  braking.
> However the next time it did make huge pulsing, almost like grinding, like
> there was a chunk out of the rotor. Then we got on the highway for 3 miles
> staying on the right, and probably not getting above 60. I costed down the
> offramp and then the pulse was gone. And the mile and a half home on surface
> roads, sill no pulsing or noise.  It's almost as if something was in the
> brakes and fell out.
> 
> We don't have time tonight to pull the wheel tonight. I'm sure he'll get to it
> soon though.

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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires


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