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It went in fine. After much poking about and help from here I managed to understand how to adjust the rear handbrake shoes. Then the handbrake problem happened.

1. If I use the underbody knurled nylon nuts to tighten the handbrake cable, it seems the options are:

either I adjust it on the underbody side so that it is taut on the front half of the handbrake lever (in which case it is loose on the rear half of the handbrake cable,

- or, I can adjust it so that the rear half of the handbrake cable is taut, but the front half is loose.

 

The Haynes diagrams suggest that there is no adjustment on the lever itself. But thats crazy. Have I missed something?

- is the new cable I have put in too long?

- or is there an additional adjustment point at the handbrake lever itself that I should also be using?

 

The bodyshell is a Mk5b 5dr. I've just fitted an RS2000 beam, with new rear handbrake cable, etc and kept the existing front half of the handbrake cable.

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OK. I've surveyed every website I can find. It seems that:

- A MK5 rs2000 beam does match with a MK5 rs2000 handbrake cable. Thats what I have used.

- MK6s had the adjustment on the handbrake lever, but unless I am wrong, the only handbrake adjustment on the MK5 is in the tunnel below the car.

 

Has anybody tried, and managed to create a hybrid, ie an adjustable handbrake lever connected to an adjustable handbrake cable (the one with the half moon not the one with the rectangle). It seems that I need to lose about 1.5 inches of cable length to get the height of the lever right.

 

Or is there a solution to a disc based beam on a 5dr mk5b which I havent thought of?

 

Somebody? X(

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