esray
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Got rolling again after sorting (with much help from this site) my valve timing out and now my rear nearside brake is siezed and Roy the Rover (how very unoriginal) is stranded on waste ground at the bottom of a steep hill in my village.
I had to haul him unceremoniously astern off the road with my Disco!
I now have the back up on axle-stands and my offside rear spins nicely until the handbrake is applied (as it should), but my rear nearside is siezed. When the engine gave up on trying to pull me up the hill with one wheel locked, I pulled on the handbrake, which ratcheted up quite a bit higher than uaual - So probably brake not diff??
Could the handbrake linkage have jammed on the nearside, accounting for the locked nearside wheel and the increased handbrake lever travel?
Please, with temperatures in the mid 20's Celsius, I do not want to spend too much time underneath, so what can I do to free the wheel up so that I can get Roy back to base (and some shade) :?:
I had to haul him unceremoniously astern off the road with my Disco!
I now have the back up on axle-stands and my offside rear spins nicely until the handbrake is applied (as it should), but my rear nearside is siezed. When the engine gave up on trying to pull me up the hill with one wheel locked, I pulled on the handbrake, which ratcheted up quite a bit higher than uaual - So probably brake not diff??
Could the handbrake linkage have jammed on the nearside, accounting for the locked nearside wheel and the increased handbrake lever travel?
Please, with temperatures in the mid 20's Celsius, I do not want to spend too much time underneath, so what can I do to free the wheel up so that I can get Roy back to base (and some shade) :?: