The handbrake on my 1994 900 cinq is crap so today I tried to improve it. I removed the drums, both of them and the shoes looked glazed so I thought I would just 'scuff' them up a bit with emery cloth and everthing would be dandy... but it wasn't, in fact I think it's worse!
I have tried adjusting the handbrake cable as per the Haynes manual but this made little difference.
Does anyone know if the rear shoes self adjusting, I know on some Fords you can adjust the shoes by levering them outwards with a screwdriver, click by click until they are lightly rubbing the drums. is there a similar set up on the cinq? Or could my problem be that the drums are past their minimun wear point? I didn't measure them with a vernier caliper as time was running out and i had to be somewhere. I dont think this could be the case as the car has only done 70k and there wasn't much of a lip inside the drum.
Any ideas??
I have tried adjusting the handbrake cable as per the Haynes manual but this made little difference.
Does anyone know if the rear shoes self adjusting, I know on some Fords you can adjust the shoes by levering them outwards with a screwdriver, click by click until they are lightly rubbing the drums. is there a similar set up on the cinq? Or could my problem be that the drums are past their minimun wear point? I didn't measure them with a vernier caliper as time was running out and i had to be somewhere. I dont think this could be the case as the car has only done 70k and there wasn't much of a lip inside the drum.
Any ideas??