What about a handbrake upgrade?
Discussion
The Griff handbrake is legendary, its fame matched only by its ineffectiveness. As any owner knows, there's no convenient point between 'stillrollsbackwards' and 'needsbothhandstogetthebastardoff'.
Is it feasible to make some more detent stops? Or would it need a new unit? One for ModWise perhaps?
Is it feasible to make some more detent stops? Or would it need a new unit? One for ModWise perhaps?
Spoke to Leven about this very topic re. the Chim'. As you can appreciate it's all the more important with all those golf clubs in there. Anyway, if enough of us would buy it from them I guess they might put a suitable kit together, but I don't know how many folks this would be to make it viable.
Steve.
Steve.
Not at all .. you just need to find a garage that knows what it's doing! It's a Ford caliper that can stop a 1450kg Sierra from rolling away, holding a 300kg lighter griff is no problem. If it doesn't work there's a fault, most likely your garage has been tightening the cable instead of slackening it off, if the caliper levers don't go back to thier rest stops you're never going to get them self-compensating for pad wear, plus the levers work at an unfavourable angle .. you really need at least 3 and preferably 4 clicks on the handbrake ratchet and noticeable free palym at the bottom of it's travel. If all this is correct then you have a caliper problem, if everything's free and set up correctly they're very very good.
joospeed said:
Not at all .. you just need to find a garage that knows what it's doing! It's a Ford caliper that can stop a 1450kg Sierra from rolling away, holding a 300kg lighter griff is no problem. If it doesn't work there's a fault, most likely your garage has been tightening the cable instead of slackening it off, if the caliper levers don't go back to thier rest stops you're never going to get them self-compensating for pad wear, plus the levers work at an unfavourable angle .. you really need at least 3 and preferably 4 clicks on the handbrake ratchet and noticeable free palym at the bottom of it's travel. If all this is correct then you have a caliper problem, if everything's free and set up correctly they're very very good.
Not coming through Essex by any chance are you...?
simpo two said:
Obviously you guys know more about it than any TVR dealer or independent that I've ever heard of!
They're right though. The handbrake on my old Chimaera wouldn't have held a Tonka truck (a bit of a handicap when your drive has a gradient more suited to a ski jump, as mine has), but it was fine once Joolz had adjusted it. Maybe the difference is that some garages make an adjustment and hope that'll do the trick. When he did mine, Joolz adjusted, then checked it and readjusted it until it was right.
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