Handbrake Seized On.

[Andrew T]

On the way back from Half term Hols in France yesterday I made the mistake of thinking that nothing had gone wrong with the Gal for a few weeks and perhaps, after 11 months it was settling down to be a reliable vehicle. Big mistake. An hour later in a torrential downpour near Calais I was rewarded with the wipers seizing up. Oh great I thought the famous wiper linkage problem, however that's been covered on this site in detail. What happened later is what concerns me.

 

After getting home and unloading I went to go out and found the OSR brake was firmly jammed on after releasing the handbrake. I crawled under the back and pushed the actuater arm on the brake caliper up and it came off.

Now I had this prblem a few weeks ago when my wife had driven round for a week (judging by the fuel consumption) with the handbrake partly seized on. After investigation I found that the rear brake calipers were encrusted with thick mud. After hacking it off, spraying the actuator arm swivel joint with WD40 and manipulating the actuator arm by hand I thought I had restored it to working order. This time, although not clean, there is nowhere near as much muck on the caliper as there was last time, so am I looking at internal problem and an exchange caliper ?

 

BTW, I think I now only need Coil Pack failure to have collected the full suite of well known Galaxy problems as, sadly, I lack an auxilliary heater to be tempremental.