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Thassos · Apr 30th, 2018, 08:14

Hi Pierre,

Good to hear your getting to the bottom of your handbrake issues, dont know if you can feed some oil or lubricant down the handbrake cables easily, sometimes you can get one end high enough to let gravity help you but often not so easy to manouver the cables like that. Have you changed the brake fluid before ? it might be worth flushing through some new fluid, you can get some fluid tester tool for a few dollars (or quid as we would say over here) on places like the bay, which can show you the water percentage in the fluid, maybe test some when you bleed the rear brakes and see what its condition is like?, i did mine a few years ago using a pressure tool that sealey make it screws direct to the fluid reservoir top, i think it was a vs820, certainly made the job very straighforward and quick..

Apr 30th, 2018, 08:14	#155
Thassos GoldMember Last Online: Yesterday 09:25 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Kent, UK	brake afterthought's Hi Pierre, Good to hear your getting to the bottom of your handbrake issues, dont know if you can feed some oil or lubricant down the handbrake cables easily, sometimes you can get one end high enough to let gravity help you but often not so easy to manouver the cables like that. Have you changed the brake fluid before ? it might be worth flushing through some new fluid, you can get some fluid tester tool for a few dollars (or quid as we would say over here) on places like the bay, which can show you the water percentage in the fluid, maybe test some when you bleed the rear brakes and see what its condition is like?, i did mine a few years ago using a pressure tool that sealey make it screws direct to the fluid reservoir top, i think it was a vs820, certainly made the job very straighforward and quick..