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Originally Posted by foggyjames
Honestly never heard of it, and I've known dozens of them. 1.4s, yes, somewhat notorious, but not 1.7s. No idea what that's about then!
Could be - I'm far from sure about the shoes - just never heard of it. One cylinder type (I'm sure it was 340...?) was definitely common to Escorts. Of course there was much more sharing back from the OEM parts bin in the day anyway. The front calipers (after 79?) are the same as certain VWs and Audis, too.
cheers
James
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I came across the odd B14 with headgasket failure , but always caused by overheating for some reason or other . Never in my 45 years working with them on a daily basis had a 1.7 headgasket fail not even on the turbo models . maybe neglected ones overheated too ....
also worn rear shoes was
very unusual , the only ones i changed in work were fluid contaminated ...
we have a 1980 340 in the family since new with 250,000 miles and that has it's original rear brakes ,
Also had a 1982 GLT and that had 150,000 miles with original rear brakes ,
as does my present 1988 343 !!