On a very early Seven with an under dash handbrake, I remember stopping on a hill for a roadworks red light and thinking, this will take a while so I'd better put on the handbrake, which I did. The lights were red for so long that when we finally had a green, I'd forgotten all about the handbrake and only when I stopped 20 miles further on, did I smell the brake linings. Anyway after letting them cool down with handbrake off, they seemed fine, actually the handbrake properly worked, so it obviously took the glaze off.
Anyway the point is that after that, I changed to a vertical tunnel mounted brake. The first one I did used a Morgan flyoff lever, but must have been made by a blacksmith, it weighed so much, after that I used MG Midget items. It's quite an easy job but means working tight up under the car on axle stands. I've recently done it again with my current Seven, an ex academy car and it works a treat.
1998 under dash hand brake
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On a very early Seven with an under dash handbrake, I remember stopping on a hill for a roadworks red light and thinking, this will take a while so I'd better put on the handbrake, which I did. The lights were red for so long that when we finally had a green, I'd forgotten all about the handbrake and only when I stopped 20 miles further on, did I smell the brake linings. Anyway after letting them cool down with handbrake off, they seemed fine, actually the handbrake properly worked, so it obviously took the glaze off.
Anyway the point is that after that, I changed to a vertical tunnel mounted brake. The first one I did used a Morgan flyoff lever, but must have been made by a blacksmith, it weighed so much, after that I used MG Midget items. It's quite an easy job but means working tight up under the car on axle stands. I've recently done it again with my current Seven, an ex academy car and it works a treat.
Well worth a couple of hours to do the job.