There is an aftermarket kit that can be fitted to the 70 series handbrake.Quote:
Originally Posted by ramblingboy42
Oh,and once the electric handbrake on the D4 faults for whatever reason,it won't work at all[bigsad]
Don't ask me how i know,and i had the van on at the time[bigsad][bigsad]
....especially the cruiser ones... even FESA have an internal bulletin for them;Quote:
Originally Posted by trout1105
Handbrake Improvement | Land Cruiser Club
Isn’t parking with the auto in park or a manual in gear plus the brake part of passing the drivers exam ? I recall that I even had to face the front wheels into the curb so that if there was a failure of any sort , the vehicle would likely snag up on the curb.Quote:
Originally Posted by trout1105
It was when I went for my license 47 years ago and I imagine it is still part of the test, At least I hope it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by trog
How can you do a handbrake u-turn, on the test, if the handbrake is ineffective?
Tragic that a young man lost his life because of a simple mistake that should be common sense to anyone that drives.
Just talking of the in gear and hand brake on thing, my old apprentice in Canberra had a really bad habit of only using the hand brake and leaving the ute in neutral.
I chipped him time and again, right up until the car started to roll away one day.
Being of a certain age and having cars without effective parking brakes (one Jeep only had the drum on the driveshaft, no guts. I left a brick under the driver's seat for hill parking. Luckily it had a 6.4:1 first gear.....) you realise that leaving a car in gear is the most effective way of stopping a car rolling away.
Another mate who's older than me had his Amarok roll out of his driveway and across the street and right through the neighbours garage.
The neighbours kids were usually playing in the driveway. Luckily they'd just gone inside that day.
Again, he never left any car in gear, he'd been taught not too??
WTF?
Finding some level ground when parking off road is also a good habit to get into, That way even if the handbake isnt applied and the vehicle is out of gear it wont move.
If on the beach partially bogging the 4WD is also pretty good insurance against the truck moving off on its own.[thumbsupbig]
Hi,
Fighting fires on the slopes of Mt Wellington, we had to swap Toyotas as our pump was flooding, possibly a leaky carby float letting in too much petrol.
We really only wanted the parts to fix the problem in the field.
But no!
HQ don't want the vollies doing mechanical work.
So a shiny pantsed chap drives a new Toyota up the track to hand it over to us.
He parked it on the slope and as he walked over to our Toyota, his took off down the slope, mounted a fallen tree, airbourne it tumbled down the hill stopping on its side against a large tree.
Ooops!
Gearbox in neutral.
All we needed was a few $ worth of bits.
Cheers
A few years ago, at a camp in Qld, one of our blokes, being a conscientious sort, washed his Inter R190 after work one afternoon. About 0100, it seems that water worked its way into the electrics, and the starter operated. Since on that engine the starter solenoid bypasses the coil resistor (and, incidentally, the ignition switch), the engine fired up - that particular truck always started real easily. Having conscientiously left it in first gear, with the handbrake on, it started off - with the transmission handbrake hardly making an impact on first gear - and proceeded across the camp, fortunately without hitting anything, until the front wheels dropped over the bank of Comet Ck, and the added resistance was enough to stop further progress.
Leaving it in gear is not necessarily the best option in all cases! (In this case the ground was level)