Suzuki Club UK

Hi all,
Driving back from supermarket yesterday i noticed that as i rolled to a stop at lights the anus pulled up on its own got out and with handbrake off could not push the anus at all on inspection the offside rear wheel was too hot to touch.....back in garage i had a hard job removing the brake drum even with the slide hammer on it when it was finally off i could see the auto adjuster was at maximum ramming the shoes against the drum hence the heat nothing appeared broken but the wheel cylinder was leaking and had put brake fluid onto the adjuster ..will of course change the cylinder but was it the fluid on adjuster the culprit ?????.....cleaned it all up with meths and on putting back together and operating footbrake all seems okay for now....
any thoughts on this ?????
jim

Mines a late model samurai so the rear brakes are slightly different but I hated those adjusters.... the rachet locking bar on mine always messed up, then the brakes either put themselves on, or completely slacked off

Yes mine is a jap built one with transmission handbrake hard top think they call it a van for some reason.....internet wheel cylinders for mine show different types for the same year 1986 so what to order ??????
jim

Do you have a decent motor factors?
I always found it better to order with my reg number for wheel cylinders... as there seem to be many many different types

Agree....and would normally take the old cylinder to compare with the one they have got But as my Escort is off the road thats not possible now so will have to take a chance got the right one or its cabs back and forth
jim

Any help.
Info saved from brakes international, so prices may be incorrect now.

Mine is the same year as yours and uses the top 2. (not that guarantees anything with Suzuki )

Thanks every body for the info have printed it all out to take with me Monday
jim

I had a jap sj410 van which had the same bad breaks, was a nightmare to remove the drums
The breaks were jammed on one wheel so after replacing the jammed up wheel cylinder it was fine then.

I got my wheel cylinder from my local motor factors