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Re: MGB Handbrake Tightening

To: john peloquin <peloquin@galaxy.ucr.edu>
Subject: Re: MGB Handbrake Tightening
From: Simon Westbrook <simon@sageinc.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:15:45 -0700
john peloquin wrote:
> 
> Dear John,
> How many adjustment places are there on the handbbrake system.  I have found 
>the one at the front end of the handbrake cable underneath the car just where 
>the handbrake joins.  Is there another one inside the car

Simon





There is a shortening nut underneath the vehicle, did you try that?
> 
> "Never Ascribe to Malice that which can be explained by Ignorance."
> John J. Peloquin
> Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521
> 
> On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Miller, John wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know how to tighten the handbrake other than the adjustment
> > bolt?  I've resorted to removing the spring from the bolt and tightening the
> > nut all the way to the bitter end, and although it works much better now, it
> > still rolls very slowly when parked on an incline.  I've looked at the
> > cables and there doesn't seem to be any easy way to shorten them.
> >
> > John Miller
> > 76 MGB
> >

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