Handbrake cable differences FL1 (ended up to be adjuster)

Compare your right hand with Nodges right hand photo. Looks like shoes are reversed so swp shoes and turn adjusters up the other way and all should be good.

andyfreelandy said:

Can you clarify the long and short fork ends on the non adjusting end of the adjuster John?? Can't remember if the long prong goes to the rear or the front of the shoe. Thanks

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I believe the long prong goes on the outside, so helping keep the shoes in against the backplate.

It can't change front to back, or the adjuster is at the wrong end, and won't work.

andyfreelandy said:

Of course if they are upside down, footbrake applications will be un adjusting the shoes and making the situation worse!!

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Absolutely.
The return spring is what moves the adjuster lever over the ramp, as that is when there is slack in the system. The action of the shoes moving then turns the adjuster when the hydraulics move the shoes out to the drum, taking up any slack created. If there's not enough slack to allow the next tooth to be gripped, the adjuster wheel doesn't rotate.
If the adjuster is the other way up, the shoes don't adjust themselves correctly.

Also, Nodges RH photo appears to be a LH!!

Best advice, take all apart, throw all bits up in the air then assemble correctly!!!!

Nodge68 said:

It can't change front to back, or the adjuster is at the wrong end, and won't work.

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I was thinking shoes were LH to RH transposed and adjuster upside down, but I think your photo is actually LH!! My headaches!!!

andyfreelandy said:

I was thinking shoes were LH to RH transposed and adjuster upside down, but I think your photo is actually LH!! My headaches!!!

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The picture is definitely the RH side, as the trailing link is on the left, and the exhaust back box is on the right.

I'm pretty sure mine is the correct way it should be, especially as my hand brake could easily lock the wheels with a normal strength pull. The MOT tester actually commented that he'd never used a Freelander handbrake that worked as well as mine, as it shocked him that the wheels locked!

My exhaust is to the right of my left hand wheel!!! Just saying!!

andyfreelandy said:

My exhaust is to the right of my left hand wheel!!! Just saying!!

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You're right Andy.

andyfreelandy said:

I was thinking shoes were LH to RH transposed and adjuster upside down, but I think your photo is actually LH!! My headaches!!!

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I'm the dodo. I knew its the passenger side, yet for some reason was convinced that it's the RH side would be passenger side.

It is of course the LH side, which is why the drag link goes to the left of the hub, and no the right, as it would do if it were the RH side.
However the adjuster teeth still point upwards, as far as I'm aware.
Next time I'll engage brain, before writing.

Short report for this one, happy ending. Ordered new adjusters both side and replaced the old ones. Now the adjustment process described here earlier does what it should do and the hand brake works.

To late now but may help others in the future.
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