- 1. Fly-off Emergency Brake (score: 1)
- Author: "Christopher M. Delling" <cdelling@ic.net>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 09:07:53 -0500
- Stupid question time folks! I have owned two LBC's in my lifetime, first a '72 Triumph Spitfire Mk IV, and currently a '77 MGB (Yes, I came to my senses and bought an MG). I was reading a history of
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg01563.html (7,569 bytes)
- 2. Re: Fly-off Emergency Brake (score: 1)
- Author: George G Curl <gcurl@tenet.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 12:32:27 -0600 (CST)
- A fly-off emergency brake handle allows the driver to do hand brake turns without having to push in the release button on the handle. Very hand to have when SOLO II was autocross or gymkana. Still so
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg01583.html (8,181 bytes)
- 3. Re: Fly-off Emergency Brake (score: 1)
- Author: GOFASTMG@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 14:06:48 -0500
- << I was reading a history of MGA last night, and reference was made to a Fly-Off brake handle. O.K., here is the stupid question - what is a fly-0ff brake handle? >> A Fly-Off hand brake is one that
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg01585.html (8,335 bytes)
- 4. Re: Fly-off Emergency Brake (score: 1)
- Author: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:25:00 -0500 (EST)
- I've read the other replies to this query, but I don't quite agree with them. The fly-off handle is a stock item. Most brakes ratchet as you pull them on, then you push a button to release them, hold
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg01595.html (8,772 bytes)
- 5. Re: Fly-off Emergency Brake (score: 1)
- Author: Ross MacPherson <arm@unix.infoserve.net>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:16:01 -0800
- Correct as usual Ray. I was going to respond to the original post but realised it had been covered fairly well in other responses. Regarding the "stockness" I don't know about A's or later Magnettes
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg01615.html (8,794 bytes)
- 6. RE: Fly-off Emergency Brake (score: 1)
- Author: <larry.g.unger@lmco.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 21:00:08 -0500
- Ross, the 'A's also left Abingdon fitted with a fly-off handbrake ... I find it rather shocking to hear that later models were not fitted with the proper handbrake. ;^) Safety Fast! ... larry.g.unger
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg01625.html (7,924 bytes)
- 7. Re: Fly-off Emergency Brake (score: 1)
- Author: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 22:38:01 -0500 (EST)
- My '60 A is as Ray describes, so maybe this changed with the B? Tom
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg01635.html (7,773 bytes)
- 8. Fly-off Emergency Brake (score: 1)
- Author: "Brinkmann, Gerry" <brinkg@uf4124p01.BHeightsNJ.ncr.com>
- Date: Wed Nov 27 09:39 EST 1996
- Regular handbrakes have some sort of racheting mechanism where you have to push the button to release it. Fly-off handbrakes work the opposite way to a regular hand-brake, to engage the handbrake, yo
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg01652.html (11,494 bytes)
- 9. RE: Fly-off Emergency Brake (score: 1)
- Author: Ernest <barrister@lawref.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 96 10:14:05 -0800
- I have studied the B and think it to be a small modification to move the spring point on the latch to convert it to a fly-off brake. Plan on trying it when I get time. Incidentally, the fly-off is an
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg01663.html (8,458 bytes)
- 10. Re: Fly-off Emergency Brake (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 96 19:38:02 GMT
- Instead of pulling up the handle on the ratchet to put the brake on, then lifting the handle a bit so you can push the button in to let the brake off holding the button all the way down, with a fly-
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg01669.html (8,361 bytes)
- 11. RE: Fly-off Emergency Brake (score: 1)
- Author: "BILL SCHOOLER" <bschooler@uhd2.uhd.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:59:32 EST
- Ernest et al, The Special Tuning booklet from BMC concerning the MGB includes the part number for a kit to modify the original handbrake to a flyoff configuration. Don't agree about the terms used in
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg01676.html (10,418 bytes)
- 12. RE: Fly-off Emergency Brake (score: 1)
- Author: Ernest <barrister@lawref.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 96 13:27:58 -0800
- Correction accepted generically. My only frame of reference is US where in my younger years handbrake and emergency brake were interchangable and I never heard of a parking brake except in a phrase
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg01682.html (11,235 bytes)
- 13. RE: Fly-off Emergency Brake (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Nov 96 20:29:10 GMT
- Those us is with a sensitive disposition soften the 'ratcheting' by partly holding in the button while pulling up the lever. My daughter got a helluva rollicking on her first driving lesson for not
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg01789.html (8,910 bytes)
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