[Healeys] Early 100 Handbrake.

[Curtis Arndt]

Mike or Magnus,

Please forward photos on to me so that we can add this to the Concours
Guidelines.

Thank you.

Curt


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Michael Salter <michaelsalter at gmail.com>wrote:

> Many thanks for all the offers of help regarding my handbrake issue.
> Magnus was good enough to send some pics of one he had and it looks exactly
> like the one that came with #174.
> Here is my response to him;
>
> *"That looks exactly like the one that arrived with the car so I guess what
> I have is correct.*
>
> *I think I may have figured out what was different on the later cars.*
>
>
>
>
> * To prevent the bent end of the ratchet rod from tearing up the carpet
> there is that 1/4 circle indentation pressed into the fixed tunnel section.
> My guess is that is that they spaced the ratchet plate out on the later
> cars (using those very thick washers) to provide more clearance, which
> required using longer screws, making the tube on the ratchet plate longer
> which in turn required making the pivot shaft on the lever longer. Does
> that sound reasonable? Unfortunately I don't have a later handbrake lever
> here to check that.*
>
> *Now I need to find the correct slot head screws..I think I have one but
> may have to make the other.*
> *Interestingly the lever that came with #174 appears to be nickle rather
> than chrome plated."*
>
> Magnus has responded thus:
> *"I agree with your thoughts. They all seem reasonable.*
> *Actually the lever may have been nickle plated well into the production of
> the 3000. I remember a Swede who took part in the English Healey Club's
> concours in the early eighties with his 3000 MKII. He got deductions for
> his lever being chromed instead of nickle plated. This lost him the
> victory. Me and many other Swedes have always believed that it was a trick
> in order to keep him from winning. Maybe the English judges were right
> after all?"*
>
> It has also occurred to me that that is the reason for that odd foam rubber
> seal that is installed between the handbrake lever and the tunnel on later
> cars.
>
> Love this list...
> Michael S
> BN1 #174
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Earl Kagna <kags at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> > Michael:
> >
> > There a 2 early BN1's here in Victoria - one in the process of a full
> > restoration, the other never restored and in a relatively unmolested
> state
> > - on the road and a beautiful car.  If you don't get a response from a
> > known good source, I will contact the owners - very easy to do - and
> verify
> > chassis numbers, and see what we can do, if they are early enough.
> >
> > Cheers,  --  Earl
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: Michael Salter
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 8:30 AM
> > To: healeys at autox.team.net
> > Subject: [Healeys] Early 100 Handbrake.
> >
> >
> > Cars built during 1953 had a different handbrake, ratchet plate and
> > attaching screws from the later cars.
> > It seems that these cars did not have the distance pieces used on later
> > cars to space the brake ratchet plate out from the mounting position on
> the
> > tunnel.
> > Unfortunately the handbrake lever and ratchet plate had been removed from
> > #174 when I got the car and although a lever and ratchet plate were loose
> > in the boxes of parts supplied with the car I'm not convinced that they
> are
> > the correct ones.
> > Does anyone have a "known correct" pre chassis C 149903 hand brake,
> ratchet
> > plate and screws that they could send photos of so I can check this?
> > Many thanks.
> >
> > Michael S
> > BN1 #174
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