OK guys - can anyone clue me in on where I adjust the handbrake on a TD5 Defender? Feeling round the drum backplate I was kinda expecting to find a nice little square adjuster-head to tweak, but from this morning's explorations I find.. nothing!
On or around Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:13:57 +0000, Tanuki enlightened us thusly:
I expect you have to undo a rubber bung and poke a screwdriver into it and waggle it about.
that's what the earlier 110s had.
Best accessed from underneath. I recall doing this at eastnor on the 6x6
101+, although I suspect that had oiled shoes as well.In , Austin Shackles said
Will feel for a rubber bung tomorrow when it's light!
In message , Tanuki writes
It will be a 6 sided adjuster at the bottom of the back plate (ie: a bolt head)
You can't miss it.
In , Marc Draper said
Ah! That I found, but thought it was one of the bolts holding the innards of the brake assembly to the backplate. I was looking for a *square* adjuster.
Willo twiddle tomorrow!
In , Tanuki said
Update: have twiddled and now have a handbrake which will happily hold 2.5 tons of trailer on a pretty steep ramp. I also put a good gobbet of grease on the bolt-head as it showed more than a few signs of localised rust and I have bad memories of trying to free off rusted brake-adjusters on neglected Minis....
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