Back not too long after I got my car, I went through the handbrake system.
I replaces a few worn clevis pins, adjusted everything the way it is supposed
to be,
and properly lubricated everything. The improvement was amazing. Even today
the handbrake works quite well.
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
At 04:04 PM 3/8/00 -0800, Jeff McNeal wrote:
>Hi everyone. So the other day, I take my Spitfire down from the jack stands
>after another month of fiddling around, anxious to try a drive with the
>wheels staying on for a change. I go to release the handbrake by pulling up
>a notch and guess what? Doesn't release. Try again. Still no good, but
>now the brake is REALLY tight. I finally managed to figure out a way to get
>the dang notch off the teeth so the thing would disengage, but obviously I
>have a new problem. What part has worn out or become misaligned? Some sort
>of a spring?
>
>As a funny aside, my wife commented today that the Spitfire looks like a
>skateboard with sheetmetal wrapped around it and jokingly suggested that I
>wear my old motorcycle helmet while driving it. The other day, when I took
>it out for the first time since the wheel fell off last month (VB never HAS
>gotten back to me about the lousy adapter nuts BTW), my wife wanted to know
>"where the (life) insurance papers are" again.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Jeff in San Diego
>'67 RHD Spitfire Mk3 aka "Mrs. Jones"
>www.ohms.com/spitfire/spitfire.shtml
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