Reply With QuoteJust carry a brick to throw under the wheels instead of a handbrake.
Now to more important matters.....is your suspension fixed?
Attention All Puma Owners
During the immobiliser drama I had a couple of months ago I damaged one of the circuit breakers for the dual battery system so today I decided to swap it out and during the process I absent mindidly made a connection between the positive and the body, it lasted all of 1/10 of a second.
And yes I had stupidly left the ignition on......
What resulted was the handbrake handle cable catching on fire!the fire was intense enough to burn through the handbrake cable
It seems that the wire for the handbake light on the dash had been previously caught in the handbrake mechanism and striped bare this must have made a connection during the short and the grease on the cable caught on fire (I assume).
Apart from now having no handbrake, a bad smell in the cab and taking 10 years off my life it all seems to be ok however it would be worth checking as if your driving along or were parked on a hill and for any reason something shorted out the result could be a lot worse than mine......
ChatterBox
SubscriberJust carry a brick to throw under the wheels instead of a handbrake.
Now to more important matters.....is your suspension fixed?
Wayne
VK2VRC
"LandRover" What the Japanese aspire to be
Taking the road less travelled
'01 130 dualcab HCPU locked and loaded
LowRange 116.76:1
Brick would probably be more effective!Originally Posted by LowRanger
Just carry a brick to throw under the wheels instead of a handbrake.
Now to more important matters.....is your suspension fixed?
Nope the arms didn't turn up, all the bits are plasma cut ready to weld on but it seems the guy making the arms is in less of a rush than Brad
I head off this week for 3 weeks on a touring trip so will get the arms fitted when I get back.
ChatterBox
SubscriberAren't you concerned that you will break things again,I thought the idea of the arms was to strengthen the rear end.Aren't you just as likely to do the same thing again while away,without doing the repairs.The truck needs to be kept in cotton wool until everything is completed in one go
Wayne
VK2VRC
"LandRover" What the Japanese aspire to be
Taking the road less travelled
'01 130 dualcab HCPU locked and loaded
LowRange 116.76:1
It was fine after the coffs trip earlier in the year and that was all touring, with the A-Frame spaced up and everything else that has been done the only risk is if I go rock climbing i will possibly snap an output shaft....Aren't you concerned that you will break things again,I thought the idea of the arms was to strengthen the rear end.Aren't you just as likely to do the same thing again while away,without doing the repairs.The truck needs to be kept in cotton wool until everything is completed in one go
Thread jack, but where you headed? I'm going out Flinders/Simpson/Corner country way (leaving in two weeks) - should I keep my eyes open for some portals to nick...err I mean eyeball
If your coming up from the bottom I am going down from the top, I leave on Friday and head up the coast to spend three days with my parents in Iluka and then Brsibane, Noosa then head inland through to Dimantina Lakes down through Birdsville to Inaminka/Coongee Lakes then Farina, possibly lake Eyre and weave to Broken Hill.....Thread jack, but where you headed? I'm going out Flinders/Simpson/Corner country way (leaving in two weeks) - should I keep my eyes open for some portals to nick...err I mean eyeball
Sounds like we are going to cross paths!
Yep, I'll be going 'uphill'. Cool - my Pumas the same as yours (just a little lower) - I'll keep my eyes open!
Master
Chook73
PM sent,you may have another problem,ie the H/Brake cable acting as an earth cable
Jim.
Master
My first thought as well Jim - if you shorted out to the body Iain, the handbrake cable will do a great job of acting like an earth cable for a few seconds. I thought the handbrake light goes to earth when the handbrake is on - so worst that would happen is it would turn the light on it if shorts out.
I have made sure the body on the truck is properly earthed to the chassis - don't want all the little wires or cables being the primary earth if something happens to the main earth.
One known problem on older Jaguar V12 is that the earth strap corrodes, then the accelerator cable becomes the earth strap, and on some the accelerator cable runs under a fuel line
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