Hello everyone, since I haven’t found anything regarding this (maybe I am too stupid for the search… who knows…) I decided to to share my suffering with you.
So the next one with this problem will have less headache with this.
Just the basics about the car . 200Series GX/ built 2008/ diesel/ manual Handbrake/ manual shifter
Since my handbreak never rly worked fine (well like s***) and I already changed the brake bell, the brakes, springs and other stuff I looked at the back of the housing. Looks like the hose broke off and I decided now to give it a last chance changing the bowden assembly.
Step one, remove the cup holder and see if I can unmount the bowden. Well the cable itself is removable easily with a 12mm wrench but no chance to dig deeper into it. Luckily you can just pull out the whole assembly in the middle (I guess it is a bit more fun with an automatic but anyway.)
looks then like this (as you see you should never drive with open windows in a sandstorm in the Sahara dessert)
As you see this stuff is fixed in the metal with some nice metal spring thingis…
After I tryed it with force I decided to do it with brain so I went to the PC, did some CAD magic and printed an adapter du push the springs to the center
And that worked pretty well
upcoming…
well I thought this would be the biggest step but guess, it’s not! A 200 driven in southern Germany that got no care except the basic technical stuff and every 6.000k fresh oil has alot of rust and so are the screws of the assembly.
Tried to remove the second screw and I got another screw head for my collection.
Spoiler: next post will be about havin fun with Helicoils - luckily a friend has a set
So the next one with this problem will have less headache with this.
Just the basics about the car . 200Series GX/ built 2008/ diesel/ manual Handbrake/ manual shifter
Since my handbreak never rly worked fine (well like s***) and I already changed the brake bell, the brakes, springs and other stuff I looked at the back of the housing. Looks like the hose broke off and I decided now to give it a last chance changing the bowden assembly.
Step one, remove the cup holder and see if I can unmount the bowden. Well the cable itself is removable easily with a 12mm wrench but no chance to dig deeper into it. Luckily you can just pull out the whole assembly in the middle (I guess it is a bit more fun with an automatic but anyway.)
looks then like this (as you see you should never drive with open windows in a sandstorm in the Sahara dessert)
As you see this stuff is fixed in the metal with some nice metal spring thingis…
After I tryed it with force I decided to do it with brain so I went to the PC, did some CAD magic and printed an adapter du push the springs to the center
And that worked pretty well
upcoming…
well I thought this would be the biggest step but guess, it’s not! A 200 driven in southern Germany that got no care except the basic technical stuff and every 6.000k fresh oil has alot of rust and so are the screws of the assembly.
Tried to remove the second screw and I got another screw head for my collection.
Spoiler: next post will be about havin fun with Helicoils - luckily a friend has a set
