My Seicento (Freddie) has his mot next friday so i have had him looked at today for any possible failures....he is looking good but does need his handbrake adjusting.

i am led to belive that the handbrakes are ment to be self adjusting. its fine on the drivers side but too loose of the passanger. We have looked around the wheel in the car but can see no way of adjusting it does any one have any ideas???

on a side not the tube has come off my rear piddler as well any ideas how to put that back?

cheers

If its one side is it not a handbrake quadrent has seized on the poor side.

That's the most likely. It's just possible that the handbrake cable has seized internally.

The only adjustment is by means of a locknut under the car, immediately behind the handbrake lever assembly.

Whoever told you they're self adjusting is completely and utterly wrong!

fingers99 said:

Whoever told you they're self adjusting is completely and utterly wrong!

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There is no manual adjustment, the adjustment is by friction and is supposed to work without direct human intervention, so I suppose it could be called automatic, although we all know its doesn't adjust automatically properly.

Cheers

PD

Nope doesn't work lol

So what can i do to rectify this?

i need for this car to pass its test since the engine went bang in my partners new car on Thursday.

You -- probably -- need to strip out the side that doesn't work, clean up the actuating elbow (the bit that the handbrake cable connects to, inside the brake drum) until it's really free, and re-assemble, then adjust the cable so that the handbrake comes on at 3 clicks.

All this has been dealt with so many times, in so much gory detail, that a search should turn it up.

Dismantly one brake at a time, so you have a guide on how to put it back together again.

You can adjust the cable but really if it's only on one side it's almost certainly going to be the actuation elbow. This is a take the drums apart & free up/get new elbows job, do both as they are a known weak point.

The job is a fairly simple but time consuming one, I'd recommend getting the drums off then freeing off one side at a time so you have a reference for putting the other side back together. You'll need to get a shoe spring hook they're cheap & save a lot of hassle getting the springs on and off. Once the elbow is out you soak it in penetrating fluid then work it until it's moving freely, work some copper grease into the elbow pivot then re-assemble the drum.