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Rear dumb brakes not locking with handbrake

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Old May 21, 2015 | 08:48 AM
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Default Rear dumb brakes not locking with handbrake

As above drivers side doesn't lock up when you in put the bank brake on, i recently fitted new cylinders and brake liners and freed off the auto adjusters

Anything thing else that could cause this? Faulty handbrake cable?
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Old May 21, 2015 | 08:53 AM
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cable attached to the shoe still?
got to jack it up and have a good look at it, as ya know.
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Old May 21, 2015 | 08:55 AM
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Badly adjusted - the auto adjusters are shit! Just manually set them
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Old May 30, 2015 | 06:57 AM
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Looks like I'll be taking them apart when I get the car back tho lol
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Old May 30, 2015 | 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by haz87
Badly adjusted - the auto adjusters are shit! Just manually set them
This! lol
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