Close - although it's a drum brake, it's not designed to slip, i.e. it's generally ON or OFF, so applying it when moving wouldn't be good for anything or anybody...Greg wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2023 6:35 pm I may have been misinformed. Back in the day when being authorised to drive Landrovers for work, it was emphasised never to set the handbrake when the vehicle was still moving, even ever so slightly as damage could be caused to the differential. I understood it to be a mechanical lock rather than friction. I could easily have been wrong.
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What about at MOT time ?jack wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2023 6:43 pmClose - although it's a drum brake, it's not designed to slip, i.e. it's generally ON or OFF, so applying it when moving wouldn't be good for anything or anybody...Greg wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2023 6:35 pm I may have been misinformed. Back in the day when being authorised to drive Landrovers for work, it was emphasised never to set the handbrake when the vehicle was still moving, even ever so slightly as damage could be caused to the differential. I understood it to be a mechanical lock rather than friction. I could easily have been wrong.
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The transmission brake is the secondary brake, so do they put the vehicle on the rollers and test the secondary brake efficiency ? That should involve applying the handbrake with the wheels revolving ?
PS. The secondary brake efficiency should be 25% if fitted with single circuit primary brake or 16% if fitted with dual circuit primary brake.
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If it was a general problem with Landrovers I suspect it would have been discovered by now...
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It has.
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Futile. They pass MOTs, ergo it's not an issue
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Tonight's reading. Interesting that there's a workshop manual specifically for the fact that they tend to leak like a sieve...
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