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  1. 27th October 2013, 05:05 PM #1
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    Red face CAN'T GET MY HEAD AROUND THIS !!

    Can anyone help an old fella in a pickle , simple, I pulled my console out and a matter of necessity disconnected the hand brake cable, by the way it's a disco-1 1995- build date, and now I can't get the hand brake ratchet to catch like it's supposed to when you pull up on the hand brake lever.
    It seems so simple to put together, it's all to do with the workings of the little ratchet catch and the spring that holds the catch in lock position unless you press the button-----BUT I just can't get it to work .
    Can anyone take pity on me and offer some suggestions please, it is a job I bet done by hundreds of you out there, someone has got to have had the same problem.

    Thanks for reading...... Shepherd
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  2. 27th October 2013, 06:17 PM #2
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    Shepard I'd like to help but can I ask if it would be too difficult to post some photo's so we can see the problem??
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  3. 27th October 2013, 08:08 PM #3
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    Not sure if the LR handbrake is the same but when I've seen this problems on other handbrakes it was a case of the handle having been pulled too far, past the toothed sector, so that the pawl connected to the button flips out of the wire rod connected to the button. You have to de-adjust the brake, pull up the handle until the mechanism is exposed, re-engage the pawl with the button rod, then hold the button in and lower the lever. Then re-adjust the brake so it actually works.
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  4. 27th October 2013, 08:43 PM #4
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    Thanks bee utey................. You got most of what I was trying to say, the hand brake cable is disconnected so your right the handle has come up to far past the toothed section allowing the pawl to disconnect with the toothed section, but it is still connected to the button by the push-rod wire. As far as I can see it will only go back around one way to engage the toothed section, but it jambs and won't engage properly, so obviously I'm doing it wrong. And Peppercorn had an idea of a photo, but the area is far to small and tight to take a photo .
    Thanks for your help fellows keep those thinking caps on, your real close bee utey, when I started reading your reply I thought you had it,thanks again.
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  5. 28th October 2013, 12:43 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by bee utey View Post
    Not sure if the LR handbrake is the same but when I've seen this problems on other handbrakes it was a case of the handle having been pulled too far, past the toothed sector, so that the pawl connected to the button flips out of the wire rod connected to the button. You have to de-adjust the brake, pull up the handle until the mechanism is exposed, re-engage the pawl with the button rod, then hold the button in and lower the lever. Then re-adjust the brake so it actually works.

    Yep, I had this problem in my 96 Disco. I found that you could slip a screwdriver in along the top of the lever from the back (making sure that the end of the srewdriver is above the ratchet), it was easy to gently pop it back down.

    Good luck,
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  6. 28th October 2013, 07:29 PM #6
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    Well I've had success, it looked like the spring was jamming inside the handle of the brake lever. I tried Bathurst Toms idea but it still was jamming sooooooo what I did was take the release button out of the lever handle, that fixed it immediately. when I put the button back with a bit of fiddling and poking with a screwdriver it still worked ,much to my relief. I'm blowed if I know what I did ,I think I must have bent the spring inside the brake handle somehow. Anyway to all who bothered to read about my dilemma and especially to those who took the trouble of trying to help, a most whole hearted THANKS FELLAS'........ Shepherd
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