Thread: Rolling in park with hand brake on

Hey all,

Yesterday I pulled up on a hill and put my D1 in park then applied the hand brake, got out walked two paces and noticed the old bugger was running away down hill...Luckily I was able to get alongside and slam my foot on the brake, but not without some risk of injury!

I've noticed this failure to stand still before but as I'm usually still in the car i just push the gear lever into P again, pull harder on the park brake and that seems to work.

When the park brake fails to engage you can hear a clicking sound (gearbox?), like the park gear isn't properly engaged or maybe it is the hand brake?

Anyone else had a similar problem?

Chrs

Mark

I had this on my disco. On mine the selector leaver that the cable joins to was a bit floged out on the shaft coming out of the trany. This caused a bit of play which ment it would not go into gear or park properly usually had to wiggle the gear selector back and fourth for it to go in D or P etc. was an easy fix just remove selector leaver off side of tranny and give it a wack with hammer to close gap up a bit. Be carfull not to hit too hard and close it too far as you won't get it back on. Works a treat now.