Needed to fit a lowering bracket on the hand brake. Looked on our lovely forum and got a good pointer for 'how to' from @Deaky so spurred on by my success with the resr seat brackets I cracked on..... heres how I did it....
For a before pic, take a look in your own van.... lol.
So, I removed the handbrake cover by using a flat head screw driver on the plastic catch underneath the lever. I spent ages trying to wiggle it off gently until I realised that a firm yank forwards is whats required! The lower cover simply pulls off. Until youre left with this:
Next up is unscrew the 14mm bolts which hold the handbrake to the mount. The handbrake slips off easy. I left the auto-handbrake wire attached throughout with no dramas.
Using the bolts supplied with the lowering bracket i bolted the handbrake assembly to the lowering bracket.
The new lower bracket slip back into place on the original mount. A firm tap on the bottom of it got the two together nice and snug. Used original bolts to secure in place.
There was a fair bit of play in the cable so i tightened the screw on the handbrake until it would tighten no more. It was still a fair bit to go so i slipped under my van with a 10mm spanner and got to work.
This required a fair few turns until he cable was sorted.
A bit of modding for the covers was now required to make it all fit. This took the form of inch by inch measuring and cutting with a tiny hand saw followed by some use of sand paper. Its not neat enough for my liking though so im on the look out for a leather gaiter if anyone has any ideas????
The finished article.
Probably an easy mod for y'all VDub veterans but I thought I'd show how I did it for future newbies!
For a before pic, take a look in your own van.... lol.
So, I removed the handbrake cover by using a flat head screw driver on the plastic catch underneath the lever. I spent ages trying to wiggle it off gently until I realised that a firm yank forwards is whats required! The lower cover simply pulls off. Until youre left with this:
Next up is unscrew the 14mm bolts which hold the handbrake to the mount. The handbrake slips off easy. I left the auto-handbrake wire attached throughout with no dramas.
Using the bolts supplied with the lowering bracket i bolted the handbrake assembly to the lowering bracket.
The new lower bracket slip back into place on the original mount. A firm tap on the bottom of it got the two together nice and snug. Used original bolts to secure in place.
There was a fair bit of play in the cable so i tightened the screw on the handbrake until it would tighten no more. It was still a fair bit to go so i slipped under my van with a 10mm spanner and got to work.
This required a fair few turns until he cable was sorted.
A bit of modding for the covers was now required to make it all fit. This took the form of inch by inch measuring and cutting with a tiny hand saw followed by some use of sand paper. Its not neat enough for my liking though so im on the look out for a leather gaiter if anyone has any ideas????
The finished article.
Probably an easy mod for y'all VDub veterans but I thought I'd show how I did it for future newbies!
