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Vehicle & Technical => Defender => Topic started by: age on March 21, 2007, 18:49:38

Title: Defender handbrake adjustment
Post by: age on March 21, 2007, 18:49:38

Embarrassing rolling backwards with full handbrake on!  Miles away from next service, so wanted to try adjusting DIY for the first time ever.

Defender TD5 110 CSW.  Is it complicated?  Any hints / pitfalls / special tools to watch out for?  Thanks, Age.

Title: Defender handbrake adjustment
Post by: Xtremeteam on March 21, 2007, 19:08:05

need either an offset 17mm spanner or a shallow 17mmocket & ratchet,go underneat & with the hand brake off & the wheels chocked wind the adjuster in clockwise untill the drum is just lightly scuffing the shoes,you can check by moving it side to side from underneath,

Title: Handbrake adjustment - sorted
Post by: age on March 22, 2007, 09:28:43

Sounds idiot-proof enough even for me - thanks a lot. A.

Title: Re: Handbrake adjustment - sorted
Post by: graham2306 on March 22, 2007, 14:38:18

Quote from: "age"

Sounds idiot-proof enough even for me - thanks a lot. A.

Unless of course there is no friction material left on the shoes or the cable has stretched to new lengths.  In which case allocate a weekend and make lots of strong tea.

Graham :D  :D  :D  :D

Title: Defender handbrake adjustment
Post by: age on March 22, 2007, 15:24:05

Thanks for that.............  If its warm enough I'll have a look at it this weekend.  A

Title: Defender handbrake adjustment
Post by: jimthelandyman on March 22, 2007, 18:55:49

Yeh you may have snapped the cable, i did one at work with a snapped cable, take the rubber gaitor off your handbrake and undo the split pin and take the pin out, then pull the cable and if it pulls out ya need a new un.

Title: Defender handbrake adjustment
Post by: j99mud on March 23, 2007, 16:40:37

is it sorted? if not the reason mine wasnt working was the output shaft from the transfer box was leaking ep90 into the handbrake drum causing it to be completly useless. first off i changed the output shaft  oil seal but turned out the shaft its self had a groove worn into it so landed up replacing that a few weeks later
Regards James

Title: Defender handbrake adjustment
Post by: Litch on March 25, 2007, 18:10:07

"Unless of course there is no friction material left on the shoes or the cable has stretched to new lengths. In which case allocate a weekend and make lots of strong tea."

Not just a couple of hours then? I must have done something wrong (or right) when I did mine as a new cable, shoes and cleaning of the expander unit was all completed inside of 2-hours.

Title: Defender handbrake adjustment
Post by: j99mud on March 25, 2007, 18:43:27

Quote from: "Litch"

"Unless of course there is no friction material left on the shoes or the cable has stretched to new lengths. In which case allocate a weekend and make lots of strong tea."

Not just a couple of hours then? I must have done something wrong (or right) when I did mine as a new cable, shoes and cleaning of the expander unit was all completed inside of 2-hours.

indeed i did all mine and it really is not a very difficult job,
Regards James