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[theolodian]

To fix your parking brake,




Pull up the handle,




While going 20mph-ish,




Hear 2 clunks in the back,




One on each side,




That are the adjusters working,




And your parking brake works!




Repeat as necessary to tighten up even more.




Job done!!!  

[Bo Bo]

Wish you'd said that when I had my old one  

[Pitchfork]

How did you make this amazing discovery??

[Dave-C]

Willing to try it!  How official is this,,,,  However having played with the handbrake adjustment, I can't comprehend how so!!!!

Explain some more?

DC

[Timbuk]

ive just done mine this afternoon, but it wasn't your way

[hotel21]

Bet your rear hub was full of sh!te, shoes were glazed over, and all is now clear, hence the brake working?  

Grabbing a handfull at speed is not something I would suggest for cars of a 'certain age' as pulling on the handbrake at anything over a couple of miles per hour can cause the shoes to rotate within the hub and pull the steady pins (and springs) free from the rusting backing plate (or snap the rusty pins) and cause a mechanical cockup within the hub, requiring a stripdown and rebuild to repair.....

Just my tuppence, you understand....  

HtH

b

[theolodian]

I had read somewhere on here that the owner's manual says to drag the parking brake once in a while to clean the pads.  That was my intent, but when I pulled the lever up while coasting down the street it did sod all to stop the car, however I heard 2 clunks from the rear wheels.  After a moment of panic, I realised that it must have been the adjusters.  When I parked I tried the parking brake and the lever didn't come up as high!

I haven't looked at the specific mechanism on these, but drum brakes have been self-adjusting since what the 50's?  Usually it adjusts in reverse, but hey!  

[hotel21]

No prob with gentle application whilst moving to remove glaze from the shoe faces and rust from the drum, but would not recommend handbrake turns in cars of a 'certain' age.  

Would bet that the two 'clunks' were the shoes locking on the drum and lrotating initially.  Whether any slack was actually taken up by the adjusters is very much in question....  They are designed to incrementally click on application.  Over zealous apllication only causes the shoes to lock and rotate and, potentially, rubber duck their operating ability.

No doubt someone clever will be along sometime to tell me I'm wrong, though!!

B

[hotel21]

Don't forget its a dual asembly at the rear - pads for the footbrake and internal, traditional, type shoes for the handbrake.  Two seperate systems on the same drum....

[theolodian]

Don't forget its a dual asembly at the rear - pads for the footbrake and internal, traditional, type shoes for the handbrake.  Two seperate systems on the same drum....

Yeah, that's why I was trying to clean the pads.    First car I've had with these.  

[Markie]

No doubt someone clever will be along sometime to tell me I'm wrong, though!!

B

Im clever - your wrong   joke of course  

no actually your explanation will do for me  

[hotel21]

Cheers Markie.  My paypal subs are en route for your appreciation society as well!    

[Markjay]

How did you make this amazing discovery??

That’s the thing with amazing discoveries… seems obvious in hindsight but you wonder how did they think of it… for example eating eggs… I mean who was the first person to say ‘see this chicken? I’m going to eat the next thing that comes out of its bum...’  

[Pitchfork]

Just tried it
No clunks
No change- handbrake still pretty ineffective
Are you sure?

[Elite Pete]

I predict theres going to be clouds of tyre smoke all over the UK today