Handbrake bad design?

[hogweed]

Originally Posted by HarryM1BYT

Take a look at my How To link below.

Thanks Harry, great stuff, but all been done already. Compensator fitted by Arctic; new shoes and drums (and cables I think); shoes degreased; backplates etc OK… I guess I’ll just have to keep on driving with it on, and hope it gets better…

[HarryM1BYT]

Originally Posted by maxi_crawf

'slop' never heard it described as that before, I always think of the car 'sitting down' after applying the handbrake.

Call it by what ever name you feel fits - With a rear wheel raised and handbrake fully applied, the wheel can easily be turned by a few degrees back and forth, before it hits solid. All vehicles will 'sit down', especially on a slope - if you come to a stop with the foot brake still applied, then apply the handbrake, then release the footbrake. That is the suspension wound up and locked by the brakes. The faster the stop, the greater the suspension is wound up.

The 75's special trick is to actually be able to roll a short distance, after the handbrake is applied.

[topman]

I wonder how far, if you measured it, the car would move? I suspect that it looks like it moves more than it actually does.

[Heddy]

Hogweeed, I feel the same. Despite all the faffing and setting up, the handbrake is far from perfect. It requires a hard 'pull on' for steep hills. I often wonder if the friction material is too hard, it feels that way. If I have washed the car, and hosed the wheels, the handbrake is amazing.....till it dries out.

[T-Cut]

Originally Posted by topman

I wonder how far, if you measured it, the car would move?

A couple of inches I'd say.
So to answer the op question, yes IMO, they're a bad design.

TC

[topman]

It'd be interesting to see how far it does move.

[Richcl]

It's good to know others get this movement after the handbrake is applied, as I thought it was just my car.

Sounds like it's normal for the car to move slightly.

[MissMoppet]

Originally Posted by clf

Was it a Citroen, with handbrake applied to the front discs? Can't rem the model, but if you were braking hard before application of the parking brake, as you say the discs cooled , shrunk just enough to allow the weight of the car to overcome the friction.


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[hogweed]

Originally Posted by topman

I wonder how far, if you measured it, the car would move?

In my case, to the bottom of the hill

[hogweed]

Originally Posted by Heddy

I often wonder if the friction material is too hard, it feels that way. If I have washed the car, and hosed the wheels, the handbrake is amazing.....till it dries out.

Ha ha yes, when I was very young, I was a member of the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland, and we messed about with steam engines... a lot of them had little sandboxes at the front, to dispense sand onto the tracks to get a bit of traction when there was "the wrong kind of snow".

Maybe we need something like that to dribble a little sand onto the Rover's brake drums...