Handbrake

[jyothi]

Can anyone guide me how to adjust the handbrake please? It's holding next to nothing!!
Thanks

[jav360]

there is a handle adjustment and a lining adjustment, the handle adjustment is next to the handle behind the boot, you will need a deep 10mm socket
Lining adjustment you will need to remove the rear discs and use a flat blade screw driver to turn the teethed wheel to wind out the adjuster.

[vywagon sam]

i need to adjust mine too, it holds nothing at all. what exactly is the lining adjustment?

[trentvy]

any detailed threads on this. I also need assitance, as my handbrake holds jack ****

[jav360]

back of the handle adjustment with a deep 10mm socket and ratchet.
remove the rear calipers and discs, clean off all the dust on the shoes.
The adjuster is at the bottom of the shoes and use a flat blade screw driver to wind out the adjuster, won't need to be much, a few full turns.
Slide the disc over the shoe so it feels like the inside of the disc is just skimming the shoe, then adjust up the the handle to 6-7 clicks and she should be sweet.
IF you got some vernier calipers that go to 20cm you can set the measurement to the correct specs which are 189.5 to 189.7mm.

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

You need to back off the handle adjustment a bit first, then adjust the linings, then adjust the handle again.

[Bundy_Wal]

Hey guys, I went to have a crack at this over the chrissy break as I have zero handbrake useage. No probs getting rotor off, but there was no adjuster in there. The handbrake pads are mounted on a horseshoe shaped piece that looks like it's supposed to spread apart when the cable is pulled tight, forcing it to press on the inside of the rotor. I tried pulling the cable manually where it goes into the assembly and it hardly moved, s witht he handbrake shoe on its not even spreading it a all. Do I have a different setup or have I stuffed something up?
This was on the drivers side on my V6 VY2 S Pack ute. Any help would be muchly appreciated.

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

So there isn't a little toothed wheel on a pin that goes between the shoes?

[Bundy_Wal]

No, that's what I was expecting to see after the comments on here but there was nothing of the sort. There's only a single part for the handbrake pad, it is a big long horseshoe shaped thing with a pad on opposite sides. A little pin that is attached to the cable pokes up between the gap at the bottom and is suppose to spread the horsheshoe apart which should push the pads against the rotor. No adjustment that I could see though.
Can prob rip it off again and take a pic if you're interested?

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

Maybe the only adjustment on the VY's is at the handle then.

[alien]

There is an adjuster on the VY's. Follow these steps:

1. Throw the car in Neutral
2. Jack the whole rear of the car up on stands (dont use Holden jacks), remember to put blocks on the front wheels too just in case
3. Take handbrake off
4. Remove the rear wheel, remembering to make aligning marks
5. Remove 1 hand brake adjustment access hole plug (out of 2)
6. Tighten adjuster screw until wheel locks
7. Loosen adjuster screw about 5 clicks so wheel can rotate freely
8. If you then need to adjust the hand break at the handle
9. Install wheels and remove stands and blocks and your hand brake is now adjusted!

That's the best way to do it, the hand brake adjustment at the actual handle you can use the next few times then.

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

Apparently there isn't the toothed wheel that adjusts it at the shoe.

[Bundy_Wal]

Mmm, define these handbrake adjustment access hole plugs? What do they look like?
Will try and get a pic of it at some stage over the next week, not much chance tonight as I'm going to the cricket straight after work. Funnnn.

[Bundy_Wal]

Oh dear, looks like this may be yet ANOTHER case of me failing to follow instructions correctly. Did some digging and found this pic of the assembly that fits in the gap at the bottom of the horseshoe shaped brake pad setup. I'm guessing the toothed bit is the adjuster that you can access througha hole in the rotor. I had the whole thing in pieces and didn't realise that it could actually be adjusted out. It's the EXACT thing that I was looking for too!!

Shame job guys. (Wal hangs his head in shame)

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

There ya go.....

[c@l@is]

I have adjusted mine about 4 times over 12 months, always works great after a adjustment BUT only for a month or so then fails again, im about to do it again, might get new handbrake pads this time as I think mine might be out of shape or something.. Damn VY handbrakes, they suck

[alien]

c@l@is, how do you adjust your handbrake? Using both adjusters (inside and out)?

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

You either drive with the handbrake on or the cable is stretching from pulling it up too hard. Handbrakes are static, they cannot wear out unless you are moving with it applied. Oh, and they are actually called a park brake, because you only use it when parked up. In the US they call them emergency brakes, but applying it at speed can be more lethal than having no brakes....

[c@l@is]

c@l@is, how do you adjust your handbrake? Using both adjusters (inside and out)?

Yes mate both sides, rotors off .. will try with rotors on next time.

Plus I have never bothered to touch the 10mm adjustment on the handle, I will attempt it again later today if I get time coz its starting to **** me off again !!..

[c@l@is]

You either drive with the handbrake on or the cable is stretching from pulling it up too hard. Handbrakes are static, they cannot wear out unless you are moving with it applied....

The car had no handbrake when I bought it, I suspect someone has driven on it in the past and warn the shoes unevenly

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

You may have to replace the shoes then. Try adjusting it with the rotors on, that way the shoes will adjust out closer to the rotor surface. Adjust it until the rotor stops, pull the lever up to centralize the shoes, then see if the rotor spins again, if so, adjust it some more. Do that until the rotor will not move, then back it off a couple of clicks, then do the handle.