I've just fitted new oil seals and brake shoes to my 1984 Ace Marauder 360CT. I now have a problem. Forward, the brakes are fine but I am able to push the van backwards whilst the handbrake is on.
Any suggestions?
Any suggestions?
Hi, Have you got the brake lever pulled into a vertical position? the brake should engage with 3 clicks on the hand brake, this will stop the wheel moving forward but not back because of the reversing mechanism, pull the handbrake up into a vertical position then give it a try backward, the wheel should move about an eigth of a turn then stop if the brakes are adjusted correctly,always adjust the brakes from the hub to the front of the van, not front to back.I seem to have herd that the brakes on a caravan work differently to a car brakes.
I ham not quite shore how they work. But it was sed you have to go forward a bit before you put the brake on. Has the brake move when you go backwards. So when you go forward that litte bit it movers it back so it works rith.
I hope this help you.
Mark
Hey Gary, Read my earlier comments!!!!!!Come on Metzs you should know mines got Knott auto reverse and that's 1980!! and I think it was out a few years before that.
My handbook states that if the van has been pushed backward before unhitching then chock the wheels if on a slope because the handbrake will not work.
In practice this is not true as long as they are correctly adjusted, which means normally the handbrake is full on with three notches but in reverse it's almost all the way up as it takes up the slack created by the reverse mechanism.
I don't know which design this one is but mine uses a 'slipper' shoe which collapses into itself when reversing. In this case you must make sure the shoe is up in the forward position while making the adjustments and whatever you do never spin the wheel backward until you have finished.
There are lots of other bits and bobs to think about which makes these systems work just right such as cables and other moving parts being free to move. Plus the amount of free movement in the hitch head before it puts the brakes on...something else my manual was wrong about but then it said they were Lockheed brakes and there Knott!!!