> My Series II emergency brake handle has "lost it's spring". The
spring for
> the button, that is. There MUST be a spring to provide tension to
keep the
> button out and tension on the ratchet thingy, but mine is gone.
Mine did that five or six years ago too. I wasn't real big on
determining the cause of the problem at the moment, so I rigged a little
coil spring onto the lever from underneath the car. It remains that way
today. It's not real elegant, but it works.
Last summer I was rummaging through the parts shed when I uncovered an
extra early-car emergency brake handle, and it was without spring in the
button action too. I didn't have time to look into it then either, but
it did look to me like the spring must be inside the ratchet mechanism
somehow.
Funny how a problem diminishes in importance once you implement a
"temporary" fix.
Ramon
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