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Hot hand brake ???

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waveydavey:
It would be a good idea to park on hills and bump start it until you ghave a new engine earth strap on. The starting current is teh bit that will case the damage.

Range Rover Blues:
It's the charging current, lights heater etc that is causing the heating.  Try sticking a jump lead from the engine to the chassis or battery to try it out, secure the lead with tie-wraps though eh.

Wanderer:

--- Quote from: "waveydavey" ---It would be a good idea to park on hills and bump start it until you ghave a new engine earth strap on. The starting current is teh bit that will case the damage.
--- End quote ---


Yup!!! Just about sums it up :lol:

thermidorthelobster:

--- Quote from: "paul_humphreys" ---The wireing would not make the hand break hot, unless it was on fire!!
--- End quote ---

High current running through some resistance equals heat?

Donald the Disco:
This happened to me..........

Hand brake got hot...........
difficult to start
dim lights

It finally gave up the ghost on a petrol station forecourt...........had the RAC out to see what it was.........

Result.......new handbrake cable as "Brum Lee says"

And a new engine to chassis earth strap..........

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