Hey all,
I've just rebuilt my handbrake assembly with a Terrain Tamer kit, and had a quick question regarding the handbrake dogbone.
In many videos and images I've seen the dogbone as shown below....
The poky bit on one side points out, as shown in the red circle.
On my 450, the old gear had one poky bit pointing out as above, but on the other side the poky bit was pointing in.
After looking at more images and videos, I have seen several cases with the poky bit pointing in.
The reason this is important is because at one end of the dogbone, the legs are an unequal length, as shown in the red circle below...
Unfortunately the diagrams in my FSM are not clear enough to show which orientation the poky bit should be.
With my rebuild, I have pointed the poky bit inwards, and my reasoning for this is because the longer dogbone leg then sits behind the moving swing arm which is on the forward shoe.
However my reasoning could be wrong, and if someone has a better explanation of why the dogbone should be oriented one particular way, it would be great to hear it!
Best from Norway!
Mark
I've just rebuilt my handbrake assembly with a Terrain Tamer kit, and had a quick question regarding the handbrake dogbone.
In many videos and images I've seen the dogbone as shown below....
The poky bit on one side points out, as shown in the red circle.
On my 450, the old gear had one poky bit pointing out as above, but on the other side the poky bit was pointing in.
After looking at more images and videos, I have seen several cases with the poky bit pointing in.
The reason this is important is because at one end of the dogbone, the legs are an unequal length, as shown in the red circle below...
Unfortunately the diagrams in my FSM are not clear enough to show which orientation the poky bit should be.
With my rebuild, I have pointed the poky bit inwards, and my reasoning for this is because the longer dogbone leg then sits behind the moving swing arm which is on the forward shoe.
However my reasoning could be wrong, and if someone has a better explanation of why the dogbone should be oriented one particular way, it would be great to hear it!
Best from Norway!
Mark