P38A Gearbox?

oakey · Sep 14, 2015

Update
Got her back from garage and goes as sweet as a nut (Touch wood)
BUT
In park with handbrake on
Start engine
Put in Drive and let handbrake off
Nothing happens
Check handbrake is really off, wee light in dash is out, but handbrake lever is really stiff and cant move it.
Put in Reverse and then back to Drive and drives away quite happily.
If I let handbrake off first then into Drive, she drives away happily again.

Anybody know why?
Is this serious or just a case of remembering to let handbrake off first?

wammers · Sep 14, 2015

oakey said:
Update
Got her back from garage and goes as sweet as a nut (Touch wood)
BUT
In park with handbrake on
Start engine
Put in Drive and let handbrake off
Nothing happens
Check handbrake is really off, wee light in dash is out, but handbrake lever is really stiff and cant move it.
Put in Reverse and then back to Drive and drives away quite happily.
If I let handbrake off first then into Drive, she drives away happily again.

Anybody know why?
Is this serious or just a case of remembering to let handbrake off first?

Maybe wise to get under and see what the garage have done to the handbrake cable should not be like that. Handbrake should never be stiff.

oakey · Sep 14, 2015

Ok will do thanks Wammers

wammers · Sep 15, 2015

oakey said:
Ok will do thanks Wammers

There is a guide to how to adjust the handbrake properly in the Tech archive section.

oakey · Sep 17, 2015

Ta I will have a look cos I am off tomorrow

oakey · Sep 18, 2015

Went underneath today and found a couple of bolts hadn't been tightened properly. One of them was on gearbox X member and had a bracket thing attached to the top which ran under the box and the centre bolt under the sump wasn't there at all. Handbrake seems better now but could be imagination.

wammers · Sep 18, 2015

oakey said:
Went underneath today and found a couple of bolts hadn't been tightened properly. One of them was on gearbox X member and had a bracket thing attached to the top which ran under the box and the centre bolt under the sump wasn't there at all. Handbrake seems better now but could be imagination.

They did a good job then. Bloody cowboys.

oakey · Sep 19, 2015

They were ok to be honest and other garages in this area wouldn't do any thing at all as they just do MOTs

P38A Gearbox?

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