06-02-2019, 02:24 PM
I've had a bit of a drama with the handbrake on my Chummy.
My car has a gearbox without a female thread in it, and so someone has made a mount for the ratchet mounted on the chassis.
I've had the car a while and it is possible to push the handbrake off so far so as to jam up the propshaft with the adjusting bolt.
The other day the mole grips I have been using as a stop fell off and we had quite a calamity where the propshaft hit and bent the adjuster, buggered the handbrake catch, and snapped the rod from the handle to the catch. Handbrake now U/S.
I am fetching some spares from Stoke this evening to mend it all with.
What I need to know is what is the dimensions of the tang that should screw into the gearbox, I believe from looking at the shape of it, that it also form a stop for the handbrake lever, and would thus prevent a similar calamity.
Knowing the dim will allow me to weld a similar stop to my chassis mounted bracket.
I know it will be a bloody awful thing to measure on a car, but a measurement from the gearbox casing to the end of the stop would be all that I need.
Unfortunately my other uncoupled car is missing the same part. I can guess what the dim might be, but I'd sooner get it right
Many thanks in advance.
My car has a gearbox without a female thread in it, and so someone has made a mount for the ratchet mounted on the chassis.
I've had the car a while and it is possible to push the handbrake off so far so as to jam up the propshaft with the adjusting bolt.
The other day the mole grips I have been using as a stop fell off and we had quite a calamity where the propshaft hit and bent the adjuster, buggered the handbrake catch, and snapped the rod from the handle to the catch. Handbrake now U/S.
I am fetching some spares from Stoke this evening to mend it all with.
What I need to know is what is the dimensions of the tang that should screw into the gearbox, I believe from looking at the shape of it, that it also form a stop for the handbrake lever, and would thus prevent a similar calamity.
Knowing the dim will allow me to weld a similar stop to my chassis mounted bracket.
I know it will be a bloody awful thing to measure on a car, but a measurement from the gearbox casing to the end of the stop would be all that I need.
Unfortunately my other uncoupled car is missing the same part. I can guess what the dim might be, but I'd sooner get it right
Many thanks in advance.