If you get into the habit of pushing the button in, while pulling the handle up, then releasing the button to lock the handle in place, the mechanism will never wear out.
The teeth on the ratchet mechanism get worn and cause this problem. The fix is to either replace the worn parts or file/grind the teeth so that they are sharp again. Jeff Sent from my iPhone On Jan 7, 2011, at 3:26 PM, "skip" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bruce, > As far as I know all 105 and 115 handbrakes are the same. I just reworked > one in a '94 Spider and it was identical to my '67 Duetto. > Two things usually go wrong with them. The grease used for lubrication > gets hard and packed in the mechanism restricting travel. The teeth on the > pawl and its adjoining rack become rounded and therefore slip. I used a > little cut off grinder to smooth the edges and make them match once more. I > guess a file would also work but would take longer ;-) > > Hope this helps, > Skip Patnode > '67 Duetto > Norfolk, Va > > Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 10:34:45 -0500 > From: Bruce Giller < > > Subject: [alfa] GTV hand brake > > The e-hand brake on my '73 GTV no longer holds its position when it is > pulled up; not much in the way of clicking from the pawls. I've got a late > model (Jetronic FI) Spider IAP repair manual. Are the two e-hand brake > assemblies similar enough that I can use the manual's section on the e-hand > brake to repair the GTV ? > > Thanks, > Bruce > -- > to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi > or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
