Looks far too clean!

If it helps, by me the local scrappy will offer £90 per tonne on cars.

Never mind, ignore the last part, realise it's common, and the rod has bent. Will sort it out tomorrow. Thanks guys :)

Whoop! All done, thanks guys! Just one little problem now. Handbrake lever button keeps sticking. Tried spraying some wd40 on the mechanism, and it helped a bit, but hasn't cured it. Any ideas?

Do you think I'll get away with either using a jubilee or a cable tie? As far as I know it just holds it in place, Yeh?

Whats that clip thing, called, that holds the cable in place, just by the entrance there? I snapped that? :doh: Mad Hat, thankyou for your pics by the way, most helpful!!! (Anyway i can repay you?) Will be taking it apart and starting again tomorrow, soon as i finish work, and woke up again...

Yeh, to the part where it enters the drum yeh? I done that :) Then it retracts back?

Yeh, i pulled that other lever, so i could get the cable in, and as far as i could tell it just slotted in. Btw, if you're wondering, why i didn't look before i took the other one out, it was kind of a mess, and wouldn't budge, so i just cut the bleeter off in the cab and in the shoe, so i...

Love you right now, if you have it open! :D Question, at the bottom of the shoe, if you pull them apart, theres like a ridge, does it go over them, or on them? Second question, the handbrake cable, that does just slot into the gap yeh? (Inside the shoe) Thankyou :D

Ahhhh, that explains that then. Thank you :)

The shoes are slotted into that (though mine looks alot dirtier haha). Sily question. How does tightening that bolt push them further apart? Does it not have anything to do with the width of the bolt that'd push them out?

Lol, I didn't take pics, but I know where the springs go, and I can see which way they twist :) What's their use Btw? Just told hold it together? (Still don't know if it's going to fix it?) :(

Why the #### didn't I think of that? -_- thank you! :) So would this be the cause of my utter stupidity in not being able to get it to work?

Umm, I turned it until it wouldn't turn anymore. And loosed it till it came out. I'm thinking I've done something wrong! Those brake retention springs, come to think of it, I didn't fit them back in. Would that be the problem? What's the best way to put them on by the way, as they were hard...

Plastic collar?

Could be that, but maybe I'm doing it wrong? I've just been trying to adjust it, using the bolt on the back of the drum, but I notice 0 difference if I tighten it or loosen it all the way.

Mechanism seems fine to me, i took apart the drum, fitted new cable in, ran it up to the brake lever, connected that, but it just doesn't seem to be pulling it tight, well actually it's not pulling it at all. (By pulling it tight, i mean its not stopping the car)

Ok, does someone have a howto, on fitting a handbrake cable? As i've done something wrong, but i can't work out what? It just doesn't seem to be working or tightening up. Frustrated now. (300tdi - 1994)

So finally took off old handbrake cable, and was ready to reattach the new one, and guess what? Wrong ####ing cable!! Argh! Guess i better phone euro, get a refund and get the other more expensive one? lol That'll teach me for ignoring the vin number ****!:mad:

Just a quickie, do i have to take the shoes off to fit the new cable?