Handbrake slipping: any advice please, on adjustment - or do the
shoes ever need renewal? Mine’s gone 160k. Thanks.–
Ant
Kent, United Kingdom
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In reply to a message from Ant '95 3.2 sent Tue 9 Dec 2008:
I would adjust them, they are conventional internal expanding
drum/shoe brakes. Youi can use a flat blade screwdriver to adjust
them from the rear.
By the way, a neglected component on these cars is the lower cam on
the e-brake shoe. It is at the bottom and can get corroded. Next
time you have your rotors off, lube it.–
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Handbrake slipping: any advice please, on adjustment - or do the
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uncle
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In reply to a message from uncle sent Wed 10 Dec 2008:
Yes, they are easy enough to adjust. It’s also worth checking the
cable itself. Sometimes handbrakes on Auto box cars get so little
use the cable can become very tight and fail to ‘pull’ as well as
it could.–
Jags on gas
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In reply to a message from Jags on gas sent Wed 10 Dec 2008:
In fact to adjust the handbrake shoes reliably you should first
back off the intermediate cable adjuster to be absoulately sure you
are not adjusting against a snug cable but purely the rear drums.
Then once the shoes are done you re-adjut the cable so the
handbrake lever clicks 3-5 times to fully on.
At 160K the shoes may be getting near to the end of their life,
depending on your use of the handbrake. This is especially true on
a manual car like yours Ant where you presumably use the handbrake
more than people do with automatics?
Pete–
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Yes, they are easy enough to adjust. It’s also worth checking the
cable itself. Sometimes handbrakes on Auto box cars get so little
use the cable can become very tight and fail to ‘pull’ as well as
it could.
–
66 2+2, 68 OTS lump, 94 X300 Sovereign, 94 XJR Manual
Cambridge, United Kingdom
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In reply to a message from PeterCrespin sent Wed 10 Dec 2008:
With most X300’s being Auto, it was a reasonable assumption to
make, there was no info. to the contrary. It was also assumed that
the enquirer knew how to adjust an handbrake properly but if I’m
wrong about that, you have put him straight.–
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In fact to adjust the handbrake shoes reliably you should first
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Jags on gas
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In reply to a message from Jags on gas sent Thu 11 Dec 2008:
Correct. I also assumed auto until I saw it was Ant.
Pete–
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With most X300’s being Auto, it was a reasonable assumption to
make, there was no info. to the contrary. It was also assumed that
the enquirer knew how to adjust an handbrake properly but if I’m
wrong about that, you have put him straight.
–
66 2+2, 68 OTS lump, 94 X300 Sovereign, 94 XJR Manual
Cambridge, United Kingdom
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In reply to a message from Ant '95 3.2 sent Tue 9 Dec 2008:
Are you a jedi.
then use the force–
Brook, Hollywood Florida, 1996 Dark Green VDP X300
HOLLYWOOD/FLORIDA, United States
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In reply to a message from Brook sent Thu 11 Dec 2008:
OK Pete, agreed. Just to help any of us help enquirees, such info.
is quite important. If I knew the car were an auto. I’d have
guessed the shoes were probably still OK, but if it were described
as a manual I’d have said not.–
Jags on gas
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