Spontelli, Ramon wrote:
>
> > 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
I had the same problem and installed a coil spring as Ramon suggests.
It works fine as long as you don't push the button in too far and then
it hangs up inside! It's been like that for 8 years.
Tony Leeming
Series II
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