Handbrake adjust? Rusting front wishbones

[L10 TVR]

Blead the brakes and put new pads on the rear of the car at the weekend, could figure out how to adjust the handbrake so it doesn't come up so high. Any thoughts?

Had a good look at the front wishbones on the car rather surprised how thin and rusty they are. Anyone know where to get replacements from? I'm not keen to replace with Genuine TVR parts since they are obviously not good quality.

Was thinking about getting some made, maybe I should get a few hundred made since I'm sure that others will be needing them.

[ATG]

I'd have thought it would be a lot easier to get some TVR wishbones, and then set about protecting them properly. Surely it's going to be very expensive to have some made up from scratch?

[apache]

I know they look a bit thin but this helps to prevent chassis damage if you prang the front wheels (which would be very costly)

[Alex200mph]

I would have though that the bext solution would be get some standard wishbones, have the crap powder coating removed and get them galvanized and then give them a coat of paint and then that flexible underseal. They will never rust after that

[craigalsop]

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I would have though that the bext solution would be get some standard wishbones, have the crap powder coating removed and get them galvanized and then give them a coat of paint and then that flexible underseal. They will never rust after that

If someone ended up working out where to get galvanised wishbones, I'd be tempted to shell out for them....

cheers,
Craig

[Alex200mph]

no where that I know of but there has got to be places that would galvanize a set of wishbones if you gave them to them in new bare metal state?

[MajorClanger]

quote:Blead the brakes and put new pads on the rear of the car at the weekend, could (NOT?) figure out how to adjust the handbrake so it doesn't come up so high. Any thoughts?

There's an adjustment knob on mine ('98) accessible from underneath the car... how handy is that for something that could do with adjusting every 6 weeks or so?!

MC

[Alex200mph]

is this adjustment knob hard to find, mine needs adjusting too so that I don't have to leave the car in gear all the time!

[shpub]

If the cable is too tight, the self adjust doesn't work and the handbrake will get worse and worse until it needs tightening again. Slackening off the cable slightly and letting the handle come up a bit more may improve the situation.

When applying the handbrake, depress the footbrake first and you will find the handbrake will grip better.

Steve

[L10 TVR]

Where is the 'self adjust'?

[shpub]

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Where is the 'self adjust'?

In the brake calliper. Buried in the workings of the piston as created by a strange troll sub-contracted to Ford to come up with a handbrake that works well on a Sierra but is devastatingly inefficient anywhere else and where the normal process of making things tight is the wrong thing to do. He was also sponsored by the Acme Bodywork Repairs for when the cable fails and the car rolls into something and by Acme Handbrakes for when the cable is so tight the handbrakes comes off in your hand...

Steve

[MajorClanger]

Half the problem seems to be not enough rachet gears on the handbrake lever. After 3 'clicks' (compared to about 8 on the citroen) my handbrake sits almost at 45° (vs 30°). I can just about get it on to the next rachet, but it's then pretty difficult to get the handbrake off!! Strikes me that if there was more choice (rachet wise) that it would work better and the self adjust would still be able to do its job.

Has anyone tried to change the handbrake lever/mechanism?

MC

[ap_smith]

TVR paid to replace the front wishbones on my Griff 500 as they had rotted through and were dangerous.

The car was less than 2 years old

[Marshy]

Re: wishbones, give Penninsula a call as they're almost ready to go with some tubular wishbones. One imagines that they'll not suffer from the same corrosion problems as the std. ones.

[mark sutton]

quote:
is this adjustment knob hard to find, mine needs adjusting too so that I don't have to leave the car in gear all the time!

I spent the best part of a day trying to get to the adjustment knob. I think is somewhere above the cat but I could'nt see it let alone get to it. Can anyone advise exactly where it is and how best to get to it ?

[philshort]

Above the cat? Surely not, unless you have a moggy stuck to your Tivs underbelly!

The box in the middle of the exhaust is just a silencer; all the cats like happily under the bonnet of course - unless like mine they're snoozing lazily on a shelf in the garage!

[MajorClanger]

quote:I spent the best part of a day trying to get to the adjustment knob. I think is somewhere above the cat but I could'nt see it let alone get to it. Can anyone advise exactly where it is and how best to get to it ?

Steve's book (do you have a copy?) explains it's location and I can't remember exactly where it is now! From memory it should be directly beneath the handbrake, in the centre of the car, above the exhaust... accessible only from beneath the car.

MC

PS Don't talk to me about Cats.... our regular Chimaera top loving neighbours cat put his paw through the rear screen yesterday. OK, so the stitching was on its way out, but Moggy has definitely made it a lot worse. Weekend's plan... develop cat Deterrent and possible '3 strikes and my car will have a new fluffy mascot' detector.

[M@H]

Taking of cats and car damage, I found that my ex-neighbours cat had sat on the roof of the S and used it as a scratching post one day nice..

[scruff400]

Least it didn't 'mark the terratory'..

[M@H]

True , but that would have washed off by now... I still have the claw prints 12 months on...