[urq] No parking brake has led to recommendation to G60conversion.

[Phil Payne]

> ... there's not that much particularly special about the ury's rear brakes

They're stock Girling G54 calipers.

However - there are two things that are "special":

a) They're mounted upside down.  They were designed to be mounted (on a Ford Granada) the
other way up.  The difference is that the handbrake lever's spindle goes into the top rather
than hanging from the bottom, so all manner of sh1t that would normally just drop off (on a
Granada) tends to run down into the caliper and rust.

b) It is VITAL that the caliper be mounted and set with the footbrake.  Take it off, wind the
piston back in (whether or not you change the seals) and set the caliper against the disc
using the footbrake before you attach the handbrake cable.  This requires the handbrake cable
to be loosened from the adjustment under the car.

http://www.isham-research.com/quattro/caliper.png

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