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borko08

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hey, im new to all this, thinking of going to the drifting practice days, seems that a must-have thing is a good tight handbrake. came across a few posts which say that 'you need to tighten your handbrake'. i have no clue how to do it, just wandering whether its a hard job? and if its not overly difficult if somebody could explain it to me..thanks :)

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So depending on what you want to achieve there are two ways.

If you gare just tightening it to sell your car or roadworthy it just remove the leather boot on the base of the hand brake and use a 10mm socket and ratchet and tighten it up the nut on the end of the cable.

If you want to tighten it for motorsport or drift I recommend the following:

1. Loosen the nut in the that i referred to earlier until its at the end of the thread then put handbrake all the way down. Obviously do this on level ground.

2. Then jack the back of the car up and remove both wheels. You will see on the rear brake disks there is a rubber bung that looks like a big flathead screw. Remove this with needle nose pliers.

3. Rotate the brake disk until the hole that had the bung in it is at 6 o clock. Look in the hole and you will be able to see a notched wheel in side mounted vertically. This is the adjustment point for the actual shoes on the hand brake.

4. With a flat head screw driver rotate the wheel upwards to tighten. Do this until you cant rotate it up any more. You will find that you can no longer rotate the hub and brake disk at this point as the shoes are too tight.

5. Then you want to back off the shoes by turning the notched wheel down 3-4 notches. You will find that the hub and brake disk are now free again.

6. You have now tightened up the hand brake shoe on that side. Put the rubber bung in with you fingers. Do not push it too hard or it will go in to the hub and you will have to take the disk off to get it back.

7. Repeat on the other side and put wheels back on.

8. Now tighten the nut in the cabin at the base of the hand brake.

9. You should now have a brand new hand brake.

Hope that helps and makes sense.

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