Sorry Mike, got carried away by the S curves.
The hand brake should hold and not need constant adjustment.
First question. Are you adjusting the brake shoes, or the cable.
For correct adjustment, the brake shoes are adjusted by turning the
square pin at the top of the backing plate. Once the shoes are adjusted
correctly, then the cable is adjusted to give the correct amount of
handbrake movement.
New shoes typically do not have a very accurate arch, so will take some
time to bed in. During this bedding in period, the brakes will need to
be adjusted. Once bedded, the wear should be very slow, so adjustment
not needed for many miles.
If there is abnormal wear, or the cable is stretching abnormally then
you would have such symptoms, but that is pretty rare.
The handbrake should be able to hold the car on a reasonable slope, when
the handle is pulled up hard. Often there is a lot of binding from
corrosion in the handle pivot and cable, so the brakes may not be
pulling up the way they should be.
Kelvin.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Mike Torrusio
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 10:16 AM
To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Thanks for all the help. Nothing about the hand brake eh?
Is it really true that the hand brake just won't do it's job?
Cordially,
Mike Torrusio
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