Rear Disk Backing plates

[Cali 16v]

Ok so my local vauxhall garage stripped my rear brakes down to sort out my handbrake and start work on renewing the brake lines, only to find the backing plates on both sides are falling apart.

they said you can buy the part but they don't want to take the hubs off as it's not something they have done before, apparently on vectra's they just inbolt but they have to be pulled off on the calibra.

So i now need to know if there is anywhere in the northwest area that can do this job.

Or anyone local who can do this.

Cheers guys.

[Callyman]

Your local VAUXHALL garage wont work on a VAUXHALL....just goes to prove nowadays garages have very few mechanics left, just fitters that read what to do from books and cd's. Thats shocking.

[truxx]

Well i had this same problem on mine.
All i have done is drill a second hole in the backing plate and through the brake shoe,and held the shoe in place with some steel wire.

I done this for the mot,and the tester said the hand brake was perfect.
Failing that,you could weld a small steel plate over where the retaining hole is in the backing plate and make the new hole yourself by drilling 1 small hole and the using a small file to get the rest of the shape right.

This is assuming that the problem you have is where the retaining spring and bar goes through the hole in the brake shoe and twists into place in the backing plate.

As it's only for the hand brake theres loads of ways you could bodge it to work like i have done.

HTH

Dave

P.S
I should also mention at this point,my nickname given to me by friends is "dodgydave" .

[fraggie]

as above we threaded through a bolt and put two nuts on the back loctited up real tight. Works a treat You dont want your handbrake shoe coming off at high speed as if it jams in properly it may lock the wheel

[truxx]

[quote="fraggie"][/quote]

Nice to see im not the only tight arse bodger

[Cali 16v]

The garage it was in just bodged one side up, the otherside is so badly corroded you cant drill through the shoe to the plate as there is no plate behind it to hold it in.

[truxx]

If you can post some pics of it ill see if i can figure out a way of doing it...

[Cali 16v]

I'll see what i can do in the morning matey.

[Cali 16v]

ok pictures





The plan is to make a bracket that goes from the bracket caliper holding bolt down to where the handbrake cable return spring fits on the backing plate, this should then hold it in place.

[andy1]

hi, you can but these plates from vaux dealers they are £34.49+vat each i have just orded mine,

[truxx]

So whats holding the brake shoe in place? cos in that pic it looks like there in the right place?

£34.49

So including v.a.t. about £40 for new ones?
I might just be really tight,but buying them at that price would really have to be a last resort.(id try making them myself first )

[Cali 16v]

The brake shoes are fine, as is the disk pads bracket, it's purely the backing plate, you see where it has the spring fitted into it, the tension in the spring has caused it to fold over which means the handbrake can't be tightened.

so we have made a bracket the hold the spring and that should sort the problem.

[truxx]

Oh right...

Well i didnt bother fitting the return springs back onto mine.(i was meant to but i forgot ) and mine works as it should.

but yeah i see what you mean now...looks like it should be an easy fix for ya.