Glen,
Have you checked the shoe adjustment... I haven't seen that mentioned.
If
you adjust them tight, so the drumS wont turn and your hand brake lever
moves more than 3 clicks, then blame the cable, otherwise it is the shoe
adjustment. Oh, then back off the adjustment 1 notch from tight.
Peter C
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At 10:55 PM 1/18/2000 , you wrote:
>I guess the correct question to ask now is: What is the length of a new
>English make handbrake cable from center of one cable 'eye' to the center of
>the other?
>If mine is significantly longer, then I'll chase down an AH spares new one.
>
> Regards, Glen Byrns
>Doug Ingram wrote:
>
>>Sounds like you are having the same problem I did. Solved with a new hand
>>brake cable, the existing one must have stretched. BTW, watch where you get
>>this item, cheap repros abound. I got mine from AH Spares, it carried a
>>"Made in England" tag.
>>
>>Doug Ingram
>>Victoria BC
>>1958 Sprite (AN5L/636)
>>1963 Sprite Mk II project (HAN7L/30003)
>>
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