Yep, the reason the rears are prone to chewing out is the rear calipers are forward facing, and not well covered by the usual rims. This should give me a short time to work out whether to do the full brake upgrade or just to strip down the rear brakes every time they see a bit of sand or mud. My cruiser is booked in for a 50,000 k service on Monday so I will have the brakes repaired at the same time. Fortunately he only suffered bruises and was not crushed. It was apparent the wear problem with the rear brakes was still a 'feature' of the current production.Īt work last week one of the staff told us how her boyfriend had just had a narrow escape when his cruiser trayback moved while he was closing a gate pinning him against it. Did not think much more about it until researching the V8 cruiser two years ago. He was finding it a regular occurrence on the then new 79 series farm vehicles. I first heard of the brake problem years ago when talking to a mechanic on a cotton property north of Boomi in NSW. It was loosing grip again long before I reached the wet conditions of the Simpson. The hand brake was adjusted in that service. The vehicle was given a 40,000 k service by a Toyota dealer immediately before the CSR leg of my trip. The hand brake, though, has never been too good. Hosed a bit more of the desert out from under the vehicle today.

As posted earlier I did get badly bogged. You may well be right about the muddy desert crossing being the main culprit. If the truth be known, there will be many such case from people that have been caught out in the very wet conditions that has effected many outback areas recently. I bet you will find that all that lovely mud and water from your Simpson trip was the main culprit. Just for the record, the five vehicles were 2 80 Series Landcruisers, 2 Pajeros and 1 Land Rover Discovery. When we all had our brakes repaired in Alice Springs, we were told that it was very common when wet muddy conditions are around and that they ordered the pads and rotors in by the pallet load. The end result was 5 out of 7 vehicles all needed brake repairs (Pad and rotors) due to the fact that the mud and water were so abrasive, it simply just wore the pads out completely and ruined the rotors from the metal to metal scraping of no brake pads. We had a situation a few years ago when we were caught out on the Birdsville Track in all that lovely mud. I think that you will find that it is a problem that will effect any vehicle that has rear disc brakes.

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