Following on from my earlier posting; after overhauling and refurbishing my rear brakes and calipers earlier this year: the handbrake lever still operated on full travel. After removing both handbrake cables and check their condition, I found they were both very good; in fact they looked almost new. I suspect they had been made by one of the companies who make up various cables and presumably they were given the wrong dimensions.
After checking with a well known company who replicates brake and clutch cables etc. they were able to help but their time scale didn’t fit in with me.
As the existing cables were in good shape I decided to do a small and simple modification at the handbrake end, basically, I slacked off the adjust where the fork end is attached to the compensating lever and pulled back the outer sheathing to expose the inner cable behind the bracket that’s fixed to the prop shaft tunnel. I then took two nuts about the same diameter as the fitting on the end of the outer sheathing and cut through the depth of the nut on one side, this was then fed over the exposed inner cable and everything reassembled. This gave me about 5/16th of an inch extra adjustment which was more than enough to allow the correct number of notches on the handbrake to satisfy the MOT examiner.
While working on the car this afternoon, I took a photo to show precisely what I am trying to describe, see attached.
Brian
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