Handbrake ratchet mechanism
Discussion
Driving my Griff at the weekend I noticed that the parking brake and brake warning lights had both come on as if the handbrake was on.
Having checked that it wasn't, I pulled the handbrake on and off a few times incase the warning light switch was sticking on, then there was a sort of clunk and the handbrake lever went a bit floppy!
The warning lights went off but the handbrake ratchet is now non existent and the lever button can not be pushed in.
The handbrake still applies and in certain positions the warning lights work properly and all appears to be well with the cables etc under the car when I jacked it up and had a look underneath tonight so I think the problem is with the lever mechanism.
So does anyone know how to get to the workings? Looks like access is from inside the car but I don't want to dismantle anything unecessarily. I've checked the "bible" but can't find any suitable advice in there.
Having checked that it wasn't, I pulled the handbrake on and off a few times incase the warning light switch was sticking on, then there was a sort of clunk and the handbrake lever went a bit floppy!
The warning lights went off but the handbrake ratchet is now non existent and the lever button can not be pushed in.
The handbrake still applies and in certain positions the warning lights work properly and all appears to be well with the cables etc under the car when I jacked it up and had a look underneath tonight so I think the problem is with the lever mechanism.
So does anyone know how to get to the workings? Looks like access is from inside the car but I don't want to dismantle anything unecessarily. I've checked the "bible" but can't find any suitable advice in there.
Excellent diagnosis Angus!
Dismantled interior to get to the handbrake and found the front (larger) retaining bolt had sheared.
As you can imagine the bolt has sheared inside the hole, so nothing sticking out to get a grip on and the chassis gets in the way of getting a drill squarely at it. Anyone got any bright ideas that might save me the drastic measures that Angus had to do?
Dismantled interior to get to the handbrake and found the front (larger) retaining bolt had sheared.
As you can imagine the bolt has sheared inside the hole, so nothing sticking out to get a grip on and the chassis gets in the way of getting a drill squarely at it. Anyone got any bright ideas that might save me the drastic measures that Angus had to do?
Hi Angus,
Given up for this evening, a right pain of a job. Eventually got a pilot hole drilled into bolt, screwed in the easyout and guess what..that sheared off too!
So I am drilling ever larger holes to get the bolt out.
As I said, had enough for now so will apply a fresh brain to the job tomorrow.
Good idea about cleaning up while I can get to bits though.
Given up for this evening, a right pain of a job. Eventually got a pilot hole drilled into bolt, screwed in the easyout and guess what..that sheared off too!
So I am drilling ever larger holes to get the bolt out.
As I said, had enough for now so will apply a fresh brain to the job tomorrow.
Good idea about cleaning up while I can get to bits though.
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