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[miniboy94]

hi guys again iv been looking into a hydraulic hand brake for my mini as the cable one is really poor lol i found all the stuff i think i need but im worried that if i plum it strait into the back brake lines with anther t-piece will it work or will it want to lock the front wheels up to ? i dont want to end up fitting one and finding out the hard way and crashing :/ or should i just stripp down all my rear brake and by some rally shoes, and just run a flyoff hand brake to make it u-turn better ?

 

help would be great thanks ben

[Carlos W]

Does the car need to be road legal mate?

Also, are the rears properly adjusted and handbrake quadrants free and lubricated?

[Dan]

Do you need the car to be road legal and pass an MOT?

[smudger068]

Leave the cable operated one in for the Mot
Plumb in a cylinder inline to the rear brake feed and put in next to the gearlever or original handbrake n jobs a goodin'

Google it possibilities are endless

[miniboy94]

i can get the car to pass a mot any way from a mate as my emmissons are quite bad and yeah everything is free i fitterd all new cable rear alloy quadrants shoes mini fin drums trying to make it better still no good so i fort of going hydraulic ? i was thinging of leaving the normel cable one on to if i can get away with it but i the kit i was buying has an external res for the fluid and was just thinking of pluming one into the back rear brake pipes if that will work ? and thanks guy for help :) sorry about spelling

[Down&Out]

So what you're saying is that your car doesn’t legally meet the minimum road legal parameters?

 

The mini handbrake isn't that bad, the one in my Dolomite is worse, you can drive with that on even when its fully adjusted.

A properly adjusted handbrake on any of my minis has always been fine, I don’t see why you'd want all the arseing around trying to fit a hydraulic one.

[Carlos W]

So what you're saying is that your car doesn’t legally meet the minimum road legal parameters?

And him and his mate could go to prison if someone is killed or injured!

[miniboy94]

he only passes it as long as i take it back proving that i have sorted it out as in if he finds a ball joint with a split rubber he will advice it as long as i sort it out with in 24 hours of leaving him basecly i get a pre mot before to make sure ball joint and other bits and bobs are all leggal,but to be fair its only my emission that i sturggle with but going dyno this mouthe so il be good to go :) and im trying to turn it into a rally car down and out :) that why i would like hydrolic hand brake

[69k1100]

The point is hydraulic handbrakes aren't legal in a road car. If you want to go hydraulic then don't bother registering it. If you have a line locker/hydraulic handbrake and cable handbrake side by side it still won't be legal if the cable handbrake doesn't work.

[69k1100]

If you're mate passes you then good luck. You get caught you and your mate will go down.

[Bungle]

grandad racers have been hand brake turning minis since they were boy racers

 

i'm guessing if yours isn't working there must be something wrong in the system

[Jordie]

I generally find mini handbrakes good, enough to do a handbrake parallel park ;)

[mini-geek]

A quick stab of the brakes as you pull the hand break helps lock the wheels..

[Alex_B]

I need to perfect my handbrake turns then! only seem to manage it on gravel and thats no good, the ladiez dont like going on gravel only car parks and that is the point of a handbrake turn is it not ? ;) 


as above really, the mini handbrake is actually quite good if in good service so just work your way through the system, check and adjust anything that looks iffy and make sure your back brakes are adjusted correctly while you are there and it should pass no issues 

I am pretty sure you can get a fly off handbrake kit from minispares incidentally if you wanted that for "rallying"

[Bungle]

or i can sell you a bit of tape to stick over the button for £5