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[Healeys] Parking Brake discovery

Subject: [Healeys] Parking Brake discovery
From: bspidell at comcast.net (Bob Spidell)
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:54:17 -0800
References: <20120102175935.8269.qmail@hoster902.com>
I suspect this is pretty common; happened to me too.  Next time I have the 
cover off with the MIG handy ...


Bob



On 1/2/2012 9:59 AM, Steve B. Gerow wrote:
> My parking brake - even though the rear drums are adjusted to drag slightly - 
> has always barely caught in an almost
> vertical position. Not anywhere close to the "3-clicks up" position as 
> desired.
>
> In the process of installing my Supra W58 tranny, I discovered the internal 
> mount for the handbrake lever was broken -
> the weld had come loose from the frame x-member, allowing quite a lot of free 
> rotation before the lever caught.
>
> I made a clamp-on reinforcing bracket and now the brake functions just like 
> emergency brakes on other cars - it'll
> definitely hold the car on a hill.
>
> Just a FWIW.
>


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