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Fly-off Emergency Brake

To: "'The MG List'" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Fly-off Emergency Brake
From: "Brinkmann, Gerry" <brinkg@uf4124p01.BHeightsNJ.ncr.com>
Date: Wed Nov 27 09:39 EST 1996
From: "Christopher M. Delling" <cdelling@ic.net>
> O.K., here is  the stupid question - what is a fly-0ff brake handle?

Regular handbrakes have some sort of racheting mechanism where you have   
to push the button to release it.  Fly-off handbrakes work the opposite   
way to a regular hand-brake, to engage the handbrake, you have to press   
the button to lock the handbrake in the up position.

These hand brakes are used extensively in pro-rallying where you have a   
need to activate the rear brakes for a split-second. Ideally you would   
NOT  want the handbrake to engage permanently, so the fly-off handbrake   
was created.

They are fairly simply to convert, on my GTI pro-rally car, I have   
converted it to a fly-off by drilling a hole through the handbrake lever   
and the button. To create a fly-off handbrake, I push the hand-brake   
button and slip a large split pin through the hole that I drilled, so   
that the button will not come out. Simple but effective.


gerry  

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