The hand brakes are fairly flimsy. Two of my best and favorite Alfa mechanics suggest: don't unnecessarily stress them but using them unless they are really needed, such as a hill start or San Francisco/San Marino/Alps-type parking situation. Besides the prawl issues already addressed, the steel cable* broke on two or three of my Alfas over the years and just had to be replaced. I've also heard there can be an issue at the business (brake) end of the line, but I've never experienced it. * when this happened, the brake had been actuated by my beautiful wife, who is know to have a strange. destructive effect on metals. She also snapped a Spider door handle, destroyed several mechanical wristwatches, and has made many other amazing demonstartions of this ability. YMMV. Charlie, LA, CA, USA 84 gtv6 91 spider 11 Hyundai Sonata In a message dated 1/9/2011 9:39:13 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
alfa-digest Sunday, January 9 2011 Volume 10 : Number 2388 Forum for Discussion of Alfa Romeos, etc. Richard Welty <[email protected]> Digest Coordinator Contents: Re: [alfa] GTV hand brake [alfa] Google Vintage Alfa pages update Re: [alfa] headlight switch rebuild - GTV [alfa] re GTV hand brake Re: [alfa] GTV hand brake Alfa Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/alfa/ Send submissions to [email protected] Send administrative requests to [email protected] To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to alfa-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:26:01 -0500 From: "skip" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [alfa] GTV hand brake 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 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 22:08:41 +0000 From: "Watry, Andrew (LNG-SFR)" <[email protected]> Subject: [alfa] Google Vintage Alfa pages update Since I have a breather, I updated the sedan register pages at Google Vintage Alfa, at http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0Ai12UL1AsRmIcGpvRFdfckdKZFZKRmhyS2tn S VJ4U0E&gid=9 Berlina Register listings at www.berlinaregister.com are out of date and I have no immediate plan to get them up to date. Andrew ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 22:02:24 -0500 From: "Eric J Russell" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [alfa] headlight switch rebuild - GTV Here's one about a Series 3 Spider's combination switch. I didn't take apart the headlight section for two reasons 1) it is working fine & B) I'd need to drill out some small rivets. http://www.alfabb.com/bb/forums/spider-1966-up/146088-combination-switch-cle an-lube.html Don't know if this is the same/similar to the GTV. Eric Russell Mebane, NC http://home.mebtel.net/~ejrussell - ----- Original Message ----- > Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 12:52:19 EST > From: [email protected] > Subject: [alfa] headlight switch rebuild - GTV > > During some of the recent discussions someone mentioned there was a good > write-up about a GTV headlight/turn signal switch rebuild on the AlfaBB. > I've done searches over there for everything I think could turn up this > write > up and I've come up with nothing. Does anyone have a link saved? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 07:29:26 -0800 From: Stefano Iachella <[email protected]> Subject: [alfa] re GTV hand brake I can't answer the question about the manuals, but my 74 GTV did this a few years ago. Lifting up the boot covering revealed that a thin piece of metal that holds it to the body had broken. I had my body shop re-weld it and all was fine. I don't have any pictures of it but it was at the rear of the assembly. Stefano Concord, CA ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 12:35:52 -0500 From: Jeff Greenfield <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [alfa] GTV hand brake 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] ------------------------------ End of alfa-digest V10 #2388 **************************** -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
