Hilux Surf Brakes and wheel Bearings

[penetrator]

Hey guys just took my surf for a WOF and to pass i need to adjust the travel and performance of the handbrake - is there a relatively simple way to do this ie: tighting a bolt etc or is it a bit more complicated?

The other thing he mentioned was that the front wheel bearings have a little bit of play in them - he said theyll pass this time but need some work on them for the next warrant. What is involved in fixing those - do you you need to buy new bearings or just adjust them and can i do this myself he quoted about $105 a wheel to do it.
Cheers Guys

[wopass]

$105 each wheel for adjusting them ! ! ! JEEEZUZ !

do it your self man, super simple to do, hard to explain, i think there is a thread where someone else has asked the same question about how to adjust front wheel bearings, be best to read that. and handbreak well,,,, depends on how worn the linings are but you would be able to do that as well, its really easy but also hard to explain. there is a lot of guys down there on this site and im sure if you asked nicely one of them would be able to guide you in the right direction, if you were in hamms i could "assist" you as you did it your self but... long way to go to get a small job done,

so in short "you can dooo eeet" save the coin man and learn your potential

[penetrator]

Cherss wopass i thought the handbrake would be pretty simple to do myself i know the pad linings are ok so will just look at tightening the cable i guess.
Any idea where i could find the article about the wheel bearings you mentioned was on here?

[wopass]

with the handbrerak mate, dont just tighten the cable, in fact back the cable off, this makes adjusting the shoes more effective,

back the cable off at the adjuster underneath the truck, wop the back wheels off it, pop the drums off, clean everything out, wear a dust mask as break dust is BAD, blow it out with compressed air or with a brush if you dont have a compressor like me on the shoe links is an adjustor or on the wheen cylider itself ( been a long time since ive done a lux break service) anyway, adjust the shoes out to the drum so that they are just touching, you should be able to turn the wheel by hand with minimal effort, then adjust the handbreak cable to suit there ya go break service in a nut shell.... ohh then bleed them to get any shit out that you have disturbed

[wopass]

or is it disk break rear end ?

[penetrator]

Cheers mate sounds like a relatively easy job to do this weekend will let you know how it goes. And yes she is drum in the back
By the way with those front wheel bearings the truck has the automatic hubs does that make alot of difference to adjusting them?

[pinky]

i can make life easy . whats your e-mail as will send you the pages out of the work shop manual if that work's for you .have the entire book's on file .

[penetrator]

Cheers mate that info would be great my e-mail is :
Sean_Dent7x57@hotmail.com

[DieselBoy]

Wheel bearing thread:
http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/modules ... opic&t=893

Thanks Wopass for reminding me of it

[wopass]

7x57.. good caliber.

[penetrator]

Yeah she seems to do the bussiness for me good in the bush and good long range on the tops too. You do a bit of shooting too wopass?

[wopass]

ohhh yea

.270 a bolt browning L/H 3200fps 1/2 minute groups(my best group. average 3/4) hand loaded 3 visable feet of flame out the barrel broad day light... much fun at the range when all other shooters are 222,223's... scares the shit out of them

rolls the deer pretty well and ohh so destructive on goats

mostly stalk the kaweka/kaimanawa/ruahine area's

how bout you ?

[Jafa]

ahh another who likes the smell of burnt powda and shootin shit ,
Me I have a Tikka M595 s/s syn 7x08,Leupold 3-9x50, done the hell machining on it to bring it down to 6lbs ready to fire ,2" off thr barrel, reprofiled the barrel only 12mm dia at teh muzzle, lots of lightening elsewhere too .handloads 2900fps or so 1inch groups all day, yer that flame rools .
building up a night vis equiped, silenced .300 whisper at the mo :sniper: for
getting the :rendeer: at nite based on a short action mini mauser.
thats if i ever finish all my otha projects

[penetrator]

Yeah i started off hunting sika in the kawekas - im originally from hastings before i came to christchurch for uni. some good country up there aye? Im looking at getting into handloading too when i can afford the $$$ for the setup is so hard to find a shop that sells consistently one brand of ammo for the 7x57. Shoots real well with PMC and Federal factory loads about 1 inch groups.

Shot a couple of chamois out to 450m with it too so goes the distance - i went up for a chamois last week and me and the other guy both got one he used a .222 and dropped it allright but my one makes a hell of mess were
it hits

You ever come down this way for a hunt or 4WD?

[wopass]

as soon as i get a bit more financial ill be looking at heading south for a hunt, my dad has been up in the tops out te anau way, i think thats where he went, got himself a nice shammy trophy, about 4 weeks ago, fit strong basterd, he can still out walk/out carry/out shoot me

hey did you see that .50 BMG that sold for 6k on trade me? now that would have made a great long range shooter, or theres a guy selling a 338 lapua now to, that would also make a nice shooter,,, ahh the things im gonna do when i manage to pull a decent wage

hey Jaf, whats the case size of the 7mm 08 relative to, is it the same as the .308 case? or are they fatter, still a medium action eh?

[penetrator]

Yeah thats the problem for me too trying to find the coin to get out hunting and now im getting into 4wd it keeps adding up!! Oh well two more months at uni and im finished so i can hopefully get into thiss stuff a bit more.


Well if you or anyone else ever end up in chch and want to do a trip for chamois or something let me know as im looking for new guys to go out with now my regular hunting mate has gone south and dont worry im not some mutant athlete that powers up and down the hills all day i just keep plooding on slowly and get there in the end!!

[Jafa]

hey Jaf, whats the case size of the 7mm 08 relative to, is it the same as the .308 case? or are they fatter, still a medium action eh?

yer mate its a 308 necked down to 7mm, fits a med length action.
shoots nice and flat wif 139gr Hornady SST's dont aim off teh animal alway to 300 ...cant see much further than that wif my old eyes1 .
Shoots very similar to my ole 270 mauser but weighs and kicks a lot less

[penetrator]

Hey guys just another quick question - im going to change the diff and transmissions oils this weekend when i fix that hand brake and was wondering in the surfs is there a seperate drain and filler plug for the transfer case and gearbox or is it all combined through the gear box filler etc? and i need to put breathers on the gear box same thing - does the transfer case have its own breather or is it combined with the gearbox too?
Cheers fullas

[wopass]

all seperate cheak/fill plug for the G box is on the pasenger side mid box and the T case is on the rear side middle'ish and both drains are,,,, you guessed it, on the bottom of each, 24mm from memory

diffs, well they are right where you think they would be again 24mm i think.use a single hex socket for these plugs as they will be VERY tight and if you use a crescent or multi hex spanner you are likely to round the head of the plug. if you dont have single hex sockets the spanner is the next best thing.. DO NOT USE AN ADJUSTABLE CRESCENT.