2024 April, FHC Handbrake Compensator Bush
I always struggled to get a good handbrake on the FHC. Despite everything being new it never had a really good bite. Even after giving the shoes enough mileage to bed in and manually adjusting the automatic adjusters it still did not work as well as I wanted it to. I even have extensions on the levers kindly supplied by Bruce Trundle as well. When I saw some brass replacement compensator bushes for sale by S&S that seemed another good modification to add. These replace the standard rubber ones that fail quite quickly. Talking to my good friend Henry Brown who is a wizz at making stuff about them he said he would make me a set.
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| S&S brass handbrake compensator bushes |
I sent him a spare compensator and sure enough, a little parcel arrived a couple of weeks later with the new brass bushes added.
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| Standard rubber bushes |
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| Henry's brass replacements. |
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| Fitted on the axle. |
The compensator now moves perfectly freely - but I am not convinced it has improved the handbrake a great deal!
