Handbrake spacer tube guides - fitting
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2023 3:52 pm
Following on from my handbrake questions. I now have got the handbrake properly working with the spacer butterflies pushing the shoes out all nicely.
In trying to work out what happened in the first place, the spacer tube (49) was cable tied to the spring plate and was left very loosely adjusted. Looking at PET (diagram 701-20) I found that there is a plastic guide (51) that is bolted to the spring plate and clipped over the spacer tube. All well and good, I bought a new one for each side.
They look like they clip over the tube (as they have an open end), but they are very hard plastic and won't give enough for that. It looks to me that the only way to fit them is essentially with the handbrake cable off so the guide can be slipped over the spacer tube. Having had it all apart and now back together and re-bled, I am less than keen to take it all apart again!
Does anyone have specific experience here to give any advice? It's not the worst thing to do to take it all apart again, but I'd prefer not to!
Cheers
Graham
In trying to work out what happened in the first place, the spacer tube (49) was cable tied to the spring plate and was left very loosely adjusted. Looking at PET (diagram 701-20) I found that there is a plastic guide (51) that is bolted to the spring plate and clipped over the spacer tube. All well and good, I bought a new one for each side.
They look like they clip over the tube (as they have an open end), but they are very hard plastic and won't give enough for that. It looks to me that the only way to fit them is essentially with the handbrake cable off so the guide can be slipped over the spacer tube. Having had it all apart and now back together and re-bled, I am less than keen to take it all apart again!
Does anyone have specific experience here to give any advice? It's not the worst thing to do to take it all apart again, but I'd prefer not to!
Cheers
Graham