Hanbrake return srping?

[PobodY]

This might be a bit of a long shot, but there's no harm in asking. - I noticed the other day that my handbrake seemed to have lost "grab" (i.e. it wasn't doing any braking); seeing as I rebuilt the callipers not so long ago I thought I'd take a look.

Seems that the OS calliper no-longer has the spring on the mechanism, which I'm hoping means it doesn't ratchet when the brake is released (so now won't provide any further braking force). - Does that sound right to people who know more about the mechanics than I do?

If so, does anyone have a spare they'd like taken off their hands?

If not, what should I be looking at now (my dodgy handywork is my guess)?

I'm a bit confused by FAST as I think it's part 44091-78N00, but that says F/RH Spring, and it's clearly not the front axle.

 

[GTI-R Nath]

Im sure bigg red will sell them since my rear calipers had new springs on them after they came back from being rebuild.

 

[PobodY]

I'll give them a try; that's where my rebuild kit came from, but I didn't see any springs listed at the time so I didn't automatically think of them. - I know they say they don't sell slider pins for these callipers, but I think they just don't recognise the ones they do have as fitting.

 

[GTI-R Nath]

Yeah they dident give me new slider pins when i got the calipers back, but the springs were new the long nut thing was new and the bits the cable hooks on to were new too

 

[PobodY]

Bigg Red say they don't sell them, and that if you want them you should go to a wrecker... so *bump*.

 

[PobodY]

What about a good rear calliper with the sping still on it?