410 Handbrake

[Geoff Kingston]

Roger,
Knowing that we are shortly going to have to overhaul the rear callipers on my old Diesel Silver Shadow I did a search about rebuilding them and came across the first two out of three technical videos uploaded for the Rolls Royce Owners Club of Southern California the subject being Corniche rear brake caliper overhaul.
At the start of the first video the presenter doing the work mentions a missing part which he describes as a small 10/32 bolt with two tabs the function of which is to keep the handbrake mechanism centralised, he then shows were these should be positioned. The remains of the scrap 603 don't give any clue as the handbrake mechanism is a mass of rust, as far as I was aware the Rolls Royce and Bristol callipers were the same but I might be wrong.
This "missing part" referred to in the video does not sound like the strap you mention and a quick look on the Introcar and Flying Spares site indicates this is available, part number CD5731 which you probably got off the Australian site. The drawings on the Flying Spares site don't show were this strap goes either and I don't ever recall seeing anything like that when we have being working on the brakes of my cars, then again might be that I was not paying sufficient attention.

Geoff.