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Cortina rear axle and brakes again...
Danozeman - 18/3/06 at 02:57 PM

Arternoon. Does anyone happen to know if Mk2 escort brakes will fit a cortina axle?

Any help greatfully recieved.

big_wasa - 18/3/06 at 05:22 PM

Capri and Cortina back plates fit both Capri and Escort axles.

I believe that the 4 bolt fixing is the same but there are differant back plate designes with differant handbrake mech positions.

SixedUp - 18/3/06 at 07:53 PM

Not sure if this is helpful or not, but I have a cortina axle, with cortina backplates and drums on my Tiger.

When the self-adjusters gave up the ghost some time back, I replaced all the internals (shoes, self-adjusters, springs, etc etc) with parts from a Sierra 1.6, which are still easy to get hold of. They fit to the backplate without modification, and work beautifully.

Cheers
Richard

Danozeman - 19/3/06 at 10:19 AM

quote:

When the self-adjusters gave up the ghost some time back, I replaced all the internals (shoes, self-adjusters, springs, etc etc) with parts from a Sierra 1.6, which are still easy to get hold of. They fit to the backplate without modification, and work beautifully


Thats handy to know. The reason i ask is because may be getting a coritna back axle that has everything except the actual rear brae stuff. Its got back plate and drums but no shoes etc. I have a full set of big mk2 escort brakes sitting here.

SixedUp - 21/3/06 at 05:02 PM

Well, for the Tiger, the standard rear drums seem to be quite sufficient ... and the parts to convert didnt cost me much ... I had to rob the self-adjusters off a 1.6 Sierra in a scrappy, the rest I bought from an autofactors for about £35 or so (brakes didnt seem like a place to worry about shaving costs to the minimum!)
Cheers
Richard