Technical Rear brakes question.

[Albert Alfvag]

Hello fellas.
So, long story short. I need to replace my rear brake mounting plates as the old ones are rusted to oblivion after driving all year for a decade on swedish roads. Mine is a Panda 4x4 i.e cat 1988 btw.
I finally found an ebay seller willing to ship them to me.
I was dismayed when the package contained the wrong type. The picture shows what I got, and my old ones are for the shoes with the round self ajuster springs.
So the question: will this fit on my panda? I'm guessing this is for an earlier (or later??) model? And secondly, how does the ratchety thingy work, or rather, how do I ajust it inwards to fit the brake drum?
And also, does anyone have a source for where I might find the correct type for my car?

Cheers,
Albert

 

[jackwhoo]

clearly incorrect- do not mess about with them or try to fit to your car. Send back for refund , if seller told you they would fit your car , reason for refund = not as described . That way you should not have to pay return postage.

Try autodoc but do not order until you have messaged autodoc with your car vin and they confirm correct parts.

You could use eper on forum to find correct fiat part number and cross reference via Google

 

[jackwhoo]

The parts you have been sent look like 1992 onwards brakes

 

[Albert Alfvag]

Thanks for the reply.
Yeah 90s is what I thought aswell. But since I'll be replacing everything wouldn't that work? As far as I know the wheel bearings and the rear axle are the same between mine and the 90s pandas. I'd rather have it as it is originally obviously but this would technically work right?
I usually crosscheck with eper and google, and most of the time I just have to google the parts number to get results, with this being the exeption, as nothing turns up when googleing the backing plate parts number. And autodoc doesn't have backing plates at all. Not here anyway.

 

[jackwhoo]

I don't know if that set up will bolt straight on.
Is slave cylinder same part number between early and late brakes?
Same pipe thread?
Same piston diameter-this is critical CRITICAL.
handbrake cable connection to shoe identical?
Brake drums same part numbers?
Same sizes?

 

[Albert Alfvag]

I don't have any of my old wheel cylinders with me at the moment but as far as I can see the cylinders look exactly the same and the eper parts numbers for both the drums and cylinders are the same between the variations. And the handbrake mechanism is the same as well so to my eye it seems to be ready to be bolted on. I did some digging and found a thread where someone said the Fiat 126 backing plates are exactly the same as the old Panda 4x4s but it wasn't varified. But just by looking at pictures of 126 plates they sure do look exactly like the ones fitted to my Panda currently.

 

[jackwhoo]

I think it is looking good for you.
Same part number for slave brake cylinders perfect.
As long as shoes and drums same sizes and handbrake cables work.