jacko
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 05:54 PM |
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Hand brake
Hi all i have a Indy with rear disks brakes and i would like to make the hand brake work better at mot time to only thing i can think of is modifing
the handle but do i need to lenthen or shorten were the cable fits to in
Or do you gents have a better idear
Jacko
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marcjagman
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 06:35 PM |
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If it worked at SVA and it's maintained it should still work well enough for MOT now, surely?
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austin man
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 06:40 PM |
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just shorten it using the adjuster that goes through the back of the chasis
Life is like a bowl of fruit, funny how all the weird looking ones are left alone
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jacko
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 07:03 PM |
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It only just passed at sva and every mot it only just passed i thought the mot man was gooing to pull the handle off last year
and yes it is maintained to a high standard
The cable is as tight as it can be
Jacko
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britishtrident
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 07:12 PM |
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What rear calipers have you got ? If it is proper Sierra something is far wrong either with the calipers or the adjustment.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 07:15 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by austin man
just shorten it using the adjuster that goes through the back of the chasis
Thats how not to do it, slacken the cable off get the self-adjuster workking and doing their job then adjust the cable so it has enough movement that
it allows the self-adjuster to adjust.
Self-adjuster need a degree of free play in the cable or they don't work.
[Edited on 6/2/10 by britishtrident]
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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jacko
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 07:40 PM |
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Tha handle only comes up about 3-4 clics
they are sierra calipers
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adithorp
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| posted on 6/2/10 at 08:10 PM |
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Make sure the caliper levers are going all the way back to thier stops and there's slight free play in the cable. If not then set it that way
and pump the pedal hard to adjust the caliper up and that should sort it. If that doesn't help (or it's already set that way the problem
is either siezed caliper or pads (expect you've already checked those) or lack of leverage at the other end. If it's standard Sierra
lever, at the standard angle it should be OK (see previous sentence). If not, shortening the distance detween the pivot and cable pull point should
help.
adrian
ps. never pull the handbrake lever untill the pads have been pushed out, with the brake pedal, to the discs on Sierra or you'll damage the
internal caliper adjuster
"A witty saying proves nothing" Voltaire
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