[TR] Hand Brake Woes

[Dave1massey at cs.com]

In a message dated 9/9/2007 1:48:17 PM Central Daylight Time, 
anabil007 at comcast.net writes: 
> Hi Listers,
>     I  am trying to replace the hand brake on our 1970 TR6, the 
> old one failed when the action rod pushed through the rubber "button" 
> and locked the  brakes ON ... I had to remove the pivot bolt to get 
> them free.  It was then I discovered the old hand brake was from a 
> TR4. I found a "correct" TR6 hand brake from a donor car (original) 
> and  all went well until I tried to reattach the brake cables ... 
> there is simply not enough slack  to  do  that ... and the  cable 
> must turn 90 deg to enter the Y connector.  I released one of the 
> cables from the rear drum attachment point but still could not get it 
> to  work.
>     Any help is  clearly appreciated ...
> 
> 
Did you try attaching the cables before mounting the handbrake lever on the 
pivot bolt?  That technique works well for me (although the whole mechanism is 
a bit "fiddly" and having the cables attached worsens the issue but it is 
still workable)

Dave