adjusting a 100 ser hand brake ?

How were you adjusting the handbrake..?

I think there was a thread covering this a while ago.

Lcool website may have some info.

Hi John,

They are a real PITA. However, make sure you adjust at each rear wheel to make sure the shoe travel is correct (minimal). There are adjustments at the handbrake and also under the vehicle which normally do not need adjusting - all these do is adjust the cable length.

As mentioned above, do a search as there was a previous thread with lots of hints and detail (I tried to find it - hope you have more luck than I did!!).

Cheers
Gerry

LCOOL Link

Easy really...
Take rear wheels off and look straight at the bottom of disc area and you will see a rubber bung... "bottom remember"...
Remove that bung and look in with a torch and you will see a little thumb-wheel with teeth on the outside..
Put a small screwdriver in there and wind it from the bottom-up until it stops turning,,, it wont take much,,, maybe four or five little cranks..
Then once it has stopped turning in the up direction,,, turn it in the down direction 2.5 - 3 little cranks.. and it will be awesome..

You do realise that landcruiser hand brakes are only a cosmetic feature. They have no actual practical use. Even if you do manage to tighten it up, it will loosen within a few weeks. Just so you know.

There are mods you can do to improve the hand brake (ie make it last longer than a few weeks, maybe a few months). It's posted somewhere on LCOOL, but from memory it involves fabricating a new a part. So I personally couldn't be bothered.

matt

Seeing that it's still Friday here in WA perhaps the following will solve the now notorious Tojo handbrake problem.

Take a block of timber about 12" (300mm) x 4" (100mm) x 4" (100mm). Drill a 1/2" (12mm) hole through one of the 4" (100mm) ends. Insert a 7' (2metre) lenght of cord and tie it on.

To use it, open drivers door, lean out and with practice you can swing the block to land the said piece of timber either in front of or behind the front of rear wheel, as required, on that side.

Allow the vehicle to roll up to the block, thus preventing the vehicle from moving. Leave the vehicle in gear as an added security. Tie the other end of the cord to the steering wheel so you don't drive off and leave it behind.

To drive off, start the motor, place in either 1st or reverse as necessary and creep the vehicle away from the handbrake block. Pull on the cord to retrieve the hand brake before driving away.

This method does away with the necessity of crawling under an oil dripping motor vehicle to adjust a totally ineffective handbrake..

The block can also be used as a jackpad to place under the jack when extracting said vehicle from bogging experiences.

LOL

Disco.

Not really funny, I know of two 100 series locally that have rolled away after being parked at the top of the drive while the driver checked the mailbox, both written off!
Never park a Tojo without applying the handbrake and putting it in gear with the engine off!!

Ok, I must have a good one(not that there is a bad Cruiser) but I have owned ours 4yrs, adjusted the hand brake once and it works great.Always has.
Even after our last trip, 13500kms of mostly dirt and corrigated roads, its still good.