Hmmmmm...

My mum's pug 106 failed MOT on offside handbrake not being effective enough. The adjustment on the cable seems fine and i've had the drum off and there seems to be no problems there either (which there shouldn't be cos i did that cylinder plus shoes all round last year). Everything seems to move freely, self adjuster looks ok etc etc. Yet I put at back together, crank on the handbrake and sure enough whilst the nearside wheel is solid, i can just about spin the offside wheel by hand.

Any ideas what it could be. I mean by simple physics there has to be the same tension on each cable as they're pulled by the same rod/t-bar thingy, right? That means it has to be in the shoe and drum, yeah? (but then footbrake passed MOT fine). I mean a lot of dust came out and the drum is a bit grooved inside - could new drums and more new shoes do the trick? I guess drums shoes and cables absolutely has to do the trick, but I dont like just blindly throwing money and new bits at a problem (not that all that lot could break the bank too much i spose).

Hmmmmm....

Cheers all,

Liam

Hi

Common pug 106 fault, new shoes and cylinders and a good bed in should sort it for you.

If the drums are badly groved get a set out of the local scrappy and change them too.

outer cables also split and corrode causing inner cable to seize worth checking

how have you adjusted them?
wind off the hand brake adjustment
then readjust the shoes
them adjust the hand brake

paul

Yo dude,

If you havent got it sorted my money would be on the cable.

I had a similar problem with that old xr3i POS I had - new cable sorted it.

The only other thing might be if the cable has slipped out of any hangers / mounting brackets cos this affects its effectiveness quite noticeably Ive found.

Laters!