It has been a while since posting on the road car. I have been helping do maintenance and repair off and on for most of the sunmmer on Sundays that were available. Most of the summer I was on a $$$diet with my own build so I decided to
help out when I could. Only this last weekend allowed for some pictures.
The road car came without the emergency brake handle. After many calls by the owner to all of his sources, he was able to get the parts, but no one knew how the pieces went together. I took a look at it and figured out the way it worked. Here is the T Handle. The opposite side has the notches that hold it in the shaft when the e-brake is engaged.
Here is the shaft it rides in with the H bars in place.
There is a little spring that looks like the greek letter Pi that holds the two bars in place and puts gentle pressure on the T handle to hold the H bars in the notches of the shaft.
Then the problem was to figure out how to get a cable to work the mechanism, and to get it in the car.
The emergency brake handle uses a cable to attach to a clevis/bracket which is on the back of the brake pedal located way down in the cave of where the pedal box lives. Not easy to get to, and impossible to work on. So I suggested we start removing pieces until we got down to where we neede to get. First we removed the chrome cover located in front of the drivers side(RHD), and found the master cylinder resevoirs
Next we removed the center chrome hoousing over the heater box
Then we loosened the heater vent cable that opened and closed the vent.
The next step was to loosen the heater box itself and rotate it out of the way since it had the water lines connected.
This gave us a look at the top of the pedal box itself. We discovered that the pedal box is adjustable for short or long legged drivers. Notice the multiple mounting points for the box, and the flexible hoses from the master cylinders to the hard tubing.
Then it was a simple matter of using a thin guage wire to measure the distance for the cable and get the diameter of the clevis pin which we could find nowhere in the parts books that we had. Now we can obtain a 5 or 6 mm. cable from one of the local bike shops, attach a .25" rod end to the other end after trimming to lenght. This adventure allowed us to look at some of the inner workings of the car that had not been seen anywhere else. Here are some other pics that we took just for those that want to know about the originals.
The metal B pillars
The front access panel.
The front upright assembly and caliper. Not much room in there.
The steering wheel badge, since we had to take the steering wheel off to get down to the pedal box. Here it is as a whole, exploded, and back side.
