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Originally Posted by Steve C
Hi
Sorry to be going off subject here.
My handbrake cables do go correctly around the circular guides on the base of the Beetle handbrake lever, that's a 1st year apprentice error.
On my 1st 944 rear set-up I used the existing 944 swan necks and adapted the Beetle cables to fit, on my 2nd set-up I used the kit from Lanner with the modified swan necks and sleeve on the handbrake cable tube.
Both set-ups worked about as well as one another, they will hold on a hill no problem, but there is no way that they will lock the back wheels at speed, I think that it is a lever ratio problem, I'm just not able exert enough tension on the cable to lock the brakes.
Steve
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Hi Steve,
I was surprised at the ease that the cables slipped off the quadrant guide even though I had paid particular attention to them. I know now that I have to check, double check and check on completion with these little b*gg*rs.
I too used the 944 swan necks and shortened the beetle cables to suit. I am obverse to paying for something that I can make easily myself.
Having had drum parking brakes with rear discs on several of my previous cars I don't expect to do handbrake turns on little 8"x1 1/2" shoes especially on a tail heavy beetle. However, I do find the parking brake on the disc option even worse especially with sliding calipers where the tendancy is to try and bend the disc initially as the application is one sided. As I intend to autotest our beetle I have added a hydraulic handbrake to create those handbrake turns.
I honestly don't think there is anything intrinsically wrong with the VW handbrake. I would not look to increase the leverage as the travel distance between on and off will be uncomfortably large.
Clive