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[gbh]

Handbrake is coming up a bit high and thought i should have a go at adjustment,took the wheel off but for the life of me i can't see that star adjuster is there any chance its been removed/replaced?Same on both wheels i can see spring i think! To remove the disc would i need to back the shoes off because if can't find this adjuster i may have a problem?

[Bigron]

The legendary Serek adjusted mine at the last service, so I cannot advise, but I cannot understand why, on an automatic with Park facility, that the handbrake ever needs any significant amount of adjustment - it hardly ever gets used, si the shoes do not wear down!
Unless you know why?.....

Ron.

[neil74]

I always put my handbrake on and when I'm sure its on properly I then put it into park.
i never leave it in park without the handbrake.

[Bigron]

Understood, Neil, but why does that then cause the brake shoes to wear - they don't go nowhere!

Ron.

P.S. Yes, I know about the lousy grammar!!!

[Doctor Gollum]

Not using it is a guaranteed way to seize it up... Making it ten times harder to adjust

[Bigron]

Ok, I'll use it! But that still doesn't explain why an unused handbreak wears its shoes - is this one of the unsolved mysteries of the known Universe? 

Ron.

[Lazydocker]

Ok, I'll use it! But that still doesn't explain why an unused handbreak wears its shoes - is this one of the unsolved mysteries of the known Universe? 

Ron.

It doesn't, the shoes break down and the cables stretch

[terry paget]

It wears in the MOT test. It also wears when I forget to release it and try to pull away. It also wears on hill starts. All that said, it does not get much wear. What it suffers is neglect and seizing up. If the handbrake is left on for weeks it tends to stick to the drum, then when you pull away the lining is torn off the shoe; that is when you have to replace the shoes.

They all have star wheel adjustment. The star wheel is above the spring, and tricky to spot. I use a head torch in a darkened garage, and peer through the adjustment hole for it, at the top of the brake drum. It can be at either end of the adjuster. When you see it you can work out which way to turn it, as it is a nut on a screw.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Got to do mine soon. Got new shoes to fit, but its one of those jobs I have been putting off. Its also one of the few jobs ive never done on an Omega.
The 190 uses a very similar system, and that needs doing too. I pulled the handbrake up the other day and got out of the car. The car starting slowly rolling down the car park with a panic stricken swmbo still inside. 

[frostbite]

The star wheel is in the 11 or 1 oclock position using the single outer most inspection hole

It will be dark so a good led torch will help

[omega2018]

read this http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=125595.msg1665527#msg1665527

i suggest you only back off the minimum to get free rotation, your handbrake will seem tight but won't need adjusting for many years.

[ronnyd]

I always put my handbrake on and when I'm sure its on properly I then put it into park.
i never leave it in park without the handbrake.

+1

[pauls]

Only drive autos due to foot injury. In all my years of driving never used handbrake and never had a mot fail on it either. I just slap it into park job done.

[TheBoy]

Only drive autos due to foot injury. In all my years of driving never used handbrake and never had a mot fail on it either. I just slap it into park job done.

I used to do that, and everything seizes quite quickly - cables, mechanisms, the shoes.  I think my handbrake woes are a laughing point for many.

So I always, always used it after those hassles, and still do how in other Autos...

[gbh]

Well I sorted it at last I found that by holding the spring down I could see the adjuster with thanks to you all.For infomation driver's side was down and opposite up!!