The brakes 101 Parking Brakes
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nuts and washers, disengage the shield and revolve it round the exhaust until you can set it aside. Much
fine filth will by now have filled your eyes, ears and nose by this time! The important thing is to
disengage the cables at the lever on the front calipers and to push the inners back into the outer
covering. It's a bit of a fiddle, but not too bad a job to disengage the inner cables from the compensating
linkage. Fitting the new ones is the reverse of removal, but I found it helpful to tape the cables at the
wheel end to present the maximum free end where it is most difficult to work in encouraging the nipples
into their resting places, viz up in the 'prop shaft' tunnel. Adjust the cables evenly to give renewed
holding ability to your parking brakes.
While I was about it, I renewed the brake wear indicator wiring looms as both were broken and the MoT
man would not like it. Cost? £17 EACH! The fixing points seem to have been changed on these
replacements, ensuring that there is more loop in the cables, and hopefully, less risk of them breaking
as frequently as they have in the past. Here's hoping anyway!
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Keith writes: 'a must for the tool box is a large screwdriver cut at the end with a "V" as this makes a great
tool for releasing the (hand?!) brake cables which Jam on the release unit.' Now, this catastrophe has
not happened to me (yet). Do any other XM-ers have experience of this? Come on, you lot, Keith is the
only one to respond to this column (March '94).
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