Series 3 emergency brake adjustment

On 2006-06-25, beamendsltd <[email protected]> wrote:

> Agreed - if the transmission handbrake is anything like right
> the vehicle cannot be moved with the wheels turning. Experience
> from RTV scruitineering suggests that an awfult lot of LR's
> don't have their handbrakes set up right.

A friend replaced his Defender transmission brake with an open disc
brake as he got fed up with it packing with mud. I don't think he
made it himself so I suspect there's a kit out there somewhere. It's
still cable operated.

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Ian Rawlings wrote:

> On 2006-06-25, beamendsltd <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Agreed - if the transmission handbrake is anything like right
>> the vehicle cannot be moved with the wheels turning. Experience
>> from RTV scruitineering suggests that an awfult lot of LR's
>> don't have their handbrakes set up right.
>
> A friend replaced his Defender transmission brake with an open disc
> brake as he got fed up with it packing with mud. I don't think he
> made it himself so I suspect there's a kit out there somewhere. It's
> still cable operated.
>
Yes, I've seen the website - but can't remember what it is. Definitely a
commercial product.
JD

> Agreed - if the transmission handbrake is anything like right
> the vehicle cannot be moved with the wheels turning. Experience
> from RTV scruitineering suggests that an awfult lot of LR's
> don't have their handbrakes set up right.

I went green-laning (Walna Scar) just before it closed - at
one point I looked behind me to see my friend running down the
hill chasing his SIII 109, hanging onto the door for dear life
trying to jump in - fortunately he did and stopped it - but a bit
further and it would have been over the edge and down a *very*
steep hill into oblivion. Needless to say he hadn't set his
handbrake up properly, 'tho he managed to fix it within 10 minutes
after having stopped further up on a flat bit! In the same vein,
I overheated the hand brake on my P38 on the same trip and lost
all braking control with it - bit scary at the time given the
situation I was in, but that's another story!

Matt