Hi Barry, I trust you're out of quarantine and it's all fixed? I have a under dash handbrake, but I think the answer is more fundamental or generic? On probability, either the cable has detached from the lever, or the inner cable has broken somewhere along its length or at an end. It's a two part cable, I think, so you might have lost the clevis pin at the joint (under the transmission tunnel near the Diff) between the two? It might alternatively have pulled out of the plastic knurled nut adjuster, under the car near the diff too. If you have the time, investigate, if not, speculatively buy replacement cables from Redline, and hope it's not the handle - which can distort and once remove from its mount, be persuaded back into original profile so as to accept and retain the cable end, with some mole grips. Whilst it is off check and grease the thumb-push ratchet mechanism - you can withdraw it from the handle outer. I think the assembly guide recommends three or four clicks to lock the back wheels in operation, from fully home. WW
1998 under dash hand brake
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Hi Barry, I trust you're out of quarantine and it's all fixed? I have a under dash handbrake, but I think the answer is more fundamental or generic? On probability, either the cable has detached from the lever, or the inner cable has broken somewhere along its length or at an end. It's a two part cable, I think, so you might have lost the clevis pin at the joint (under the transmission tunnel near the Diff) between the two? It might alternatively have pulled out of the plastic knurled nut adjuster, under the car near the diff too. If you have the time, investigate, if not, speculatively buy replacement cables from Redline, and hope it's not the handle - which can distort and once remove from its mount, be persuaded back into original profile so as to accept and retain the cable end, with some mole grips. Whilst it is off check and grease the thumb-push ratchet mechanism - you can withdraw it from the handle outer. I think the assembly guide recommends three or four clicks to lock the back wheels in operation, from fully home. WW