BARN FIND ŠKODA 105- Rebuilding the rear brakes 

great to see someone down to earth working on a car who has little experience but is enthusiastic about his car

Another well explained vid. My uncle often referred to a 'special brake puller' and thats the only time we used a dealership. The front end was a bit light and you get used to it, but when you do have a bit of weight beneath the unorthodox bonnet it does help. TBH I prefer the unweighted driving as you know where to aim it. One thing is to check the thermoplug and that it works ok. Its a brass screw-in to the radiator which helps switch on the cooling fan. Of the three Estelles my family owned, this was the major weakpoint .

You are perfectly correct about the word Castlenut in English. It's because it looks like a castle 👍 Strictly speaking it's called a castellated nut.

Another one helpful video . Very good job, congratulations!

Hi, you are a good man working super well and nice for Skoda. I really like Skoda, I respect you 👍👍👍

About that disc at 1:29: there's a magic trick with those too, which might come in handy: 2 holes are slightly larger than the other 2, they are just large enough that the nuts can fall through them :) so only 2 of the 4 are actually holding the disc to the wheel. When you're putting the wheel back, you can fix it in place with 2 opposing nuts, then put the disc on with the larger holes going over those nuts, and put on the remaining 2 nuts that will hold the disc in place. I love this feature, because you don't have to hold the wheel and the disc in place while you manage to get the nuts on, like on many other cars :) Also, you don't have to lift the car to remove/replace them, because you only need to remove 2 nuts.

It's castle nut in Italian too: dado a castello. Love this car!

The Skoda is coming along nicely. Superb tinkering😉

Salut ,sunteti un om bun lucrati super bine si frumos pentru Skoda. imi place mult de tot Skoda , Vă respect cu drag

So happy to see all the progress made to the Skoda! :). Also great to see your joy and enthusiasm along the way :D

You are doing a great job on that Skoda 👍🏻

16:38 The reservoir is actually divided into 3 independent compartments at the bottom, so a failure in one circuit won't have any effect on the other 2 :)

Good work, thanks for the video. I’m sure I could smell old petrol under there! Les in UK

Nice to see how fast it's coming together now :) There are at least 3 types of master cylinders, depending on model, model-year (before and after '84, with or without servo, etc.) even the inner diameters are different in some types (21mm first, 19 in later models, but the Rapids had 21mm types up to the end, etc...... it's just a mess :D ), so you have to be very lucky to get the proper rebuild kit, even if you know what type you have :D I can't recall from when excatly, but after '86-ish, the master cylinders are not to be taken apart - officially at least, that's why yours don't have the clip at the end, if it's broken, you have to replace it. It's available, and cheap enough, so i'd go with a new one :) You can try removing all the in- and outlet parts from the side, and if you're lucky, and the end of the cylinder is nice and smooth inside, the inner parts might slide out, but no guarantees. And, yours being from 88 (?), it's surely the 19mm type, so you need a repair kit for that size. And, to make matters worse, the rear brake cylinders were also changed after '86 (from 21mm to 19mm inner diameter), sooo if you have installed 21mm rear cylinders with a 19mm master (can't really tell, but they seem bulky :D), it might still work, but the stroke of the brake pedal might be annoyingly long. I unknowingly did that to myself once, and spent days trying to figure out why the brake felt so weird :D Btw, your brake-aligner on the right side is bent :/ i'm not sure it'll work this way, it should be straight like on the other side, so that the little spring-thing can keep it locked. Oh, and a nice trick: before you pull the drum off with the magic tool, you should release the aligner, so the pads are not pulled together with the drum. There"s a rubber plug on the base blate, just behind the aligner, for exactly this purpose: with a screwdriver, you can disengage the aligner, so it pops back to the fully retracted position.

It's certainly coming along nicely, and definitely need to sort out the fuel filler neck, that could get a bit messy like that, and definitely get a spare tyre for the front end, and maybe a couple sacks of gravel for ballast too... :D

I had a 1981 skoda 120 gls Cool mid engine car Poor mans porshe😁

Don’t totally agree on seized rear brakes all the time. Never had that myself and I have 6 rear wheel drive Škoda’s and some also aren’t used for months. But on the other hand when mounting ‘new’ parts on a rusty surface they’ll get stuck in a matter of time. I always use some ceramic break grease behind the moving parts of the braking system and then you have no problems whatsoever. Did you say when the brake system fails the clutch automatically fails too? It doesn’t. Even separate system for front and rear. But not sure I heard is right. Great you found a new hubcap. Love those original stickers with part numbers too! 😃 oh and there’s no need to lower the cooling pipes for removing and reassemble new brake lines. It will fit, just enough space. 😉

woa, I sweated a little more on this drum brake thing..

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(It's still called a "castle nut", because it looks like a castle)

It’s a little spookie in your garage 😄 Who did the other side 😊

Make a note of that part number - you never know when you may have to Google it ! Hopefully the fuel leak will just be the rubber on the filler neck pipe. My uncle has a 120 LS and I remember him saying that in winter snows it was handy to put a sack of ballast in the boot if he wanted to drive and steer and he actually had a spare wheel so I suspect you will need something in there !!

I'm fairly sure that's exactly the story behind the name "castle nut"! It's "slottsmutter" in Swedish. In German it's called "Kronenmutter" (crown nut), which does make sense but I think castle is a better comparison.

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