{"id":247,"date":"2017-09-12T18:32:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T18:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/?p=247"},"modified":"2017-09-12T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T18:33:08","slug":"handbrake-lever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/2017\/09\/12\/handbrake-lever\/","title":{"rendered":"Handbrake lever"},"content":{"rendered":"

As ever, not totally happy with the original kit design so modified it (I swear I’d have completed this car already if I didn’t keep thinking similar).<\/p>\n

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Working out where I want it.<\/p>\n

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And then new mounts welded in.<\/p>\n

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Each one of those brackets consists of 4 parts… a ridiculous amount of effort! But now the lower pivot of the lever goes no lower than the bottom of the rails that make up the “tunnel”.<\/p>\n

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Then welded in a piece of steel to mount the cables into.<\/p>\n

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The handbrake cables which I bought from HiSpec with the calipers will then just slot into these.<\/p>\n

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The only issue here is that the handbrake is not central and would pull them to one side. I need to think about this some more.<\/p>\n

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As ever, not totally happy with the original kit design so modified it (I swear I’d have completed this car already if I didn’t keep thinking similar). Original Working out where I want it. And then new mounts welded in. Each one of those brackets consists of 4 parts… a ridiculous amount of effort! But … Continue reading Handbrake lever<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}