Hey all.

Been sifting through the extensive collection of handbrake threads and still cant find anything similar to my prob.

When engaging the HB rolling, or stopped, its quite noticable that the rear left dips under the weight. and not the right. Is this normal? under normal braking there is no pulling to either side, or any other sign of probs. I mentioned this to ford a while ago and it was fixed (or I didnt notice anymore) when I picked it up, with no mention of what they'd done. Well.. long and short, the past few weeks I have again noticed this. Out of warranty now so can just take it back. Im guessing there's no adjustment on L/R bias??

any1 experienced this before??

Cheers yall in advance

Edited 24/02/09 11:46 AM24/02/09 11:46 AM by XRSics

Hey mate.

I've got the same problem. I haven't been able to quick you-turns for ages.

I could do them for about 3 weeks when I first bought my ute, after that it just seemed to lock-up one wheel

If sedans are anything like utes there are three adjustment points.

- One near each rear brake (to adjust each side)

- The main one in-between the diff/gear box (to tension/slack off)

I've also told Ford about it, but it seems there's a fine line between having it tight enough to do skids or having the rear brakes drag commonly known as the "swooshing" noise.

Does anyone know what the correct tightening parameters are?- if such a thing exists

Edited 24/02/09 02:52 PM24/02/09 02:52 PM by Jman

ah.. so at a guess, would 1 be able to just adjust the right rear??

gonna give it a look fri/sat arvo, not sure if ill touch anything though..

Hey guys,

I had the same prob withthe handbrake "swooshing". I took it to a brake specialist and he told me the cause of it was from someone had been pulling the handbrake up while the car was moving. The standard HB drums in the ba are very soft and wear quite easily. Making impossable to get rid of the annying brake swoosh. Just replaced the drums with a PBR kit and everything is sweet. The kit cost me $300 fitted. Hope this helps.

nah completly different prob..

thanx anyways

Mine has done it all the time I have owned it. Ive always gotta adjust the left one.

Hopefully new rotors will help that lill problem

Hey guys,

Check out my post in the thread below. XRSics, sounds like your left side pad has more initial tension, so when you pull the lever up, it is the first side to bite. Was the same case with me too and led to swooshing noise as described by many.

http://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/index.ph...mp;hl=handbrake

Can still download a Ford TSB showing some pics and instructions.

It's a crappy design, but by playing around adjusting everything myself, I've been able to live without the swoosh noise for many many months now. :-) Pulling up your handbrake anytime while moving just ruins it. Those of you technically minded, just take one of the rear wheels and hubs off and look how it works. You can adjust the initial tension of each drum pad. I take the circular pad off and just turn the adjustment wheel at the bottom to the minimum ie least tension setting. Also by bending the retaining spring to give more tension, this stops the pad moving around within the drum which is main cause of swoosh IMO. the pad is hugged against the black metal backing plate. Should use hi temp grease also on contact points between side of pad and backing plate. If your handbrake lever is up real high, attend to this first by getting under the car saftely and tightening the cable at the Y split point. It's up against the body just in front of the rear axle from memory, slightly on driver's side. Cheers.

Ben

Edited 26/02/09 11:08 PM26/02/09 11:08 PM by benjam