At 18:44 13 August 2018, wrote:
Bumping this thread to see what Eric found last year.

My Cobra brake jammed on after a hard stop on the way home
from Midlothian
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last week. Couldn't free it up so disconnected the brake cables at
the
cent=
er brake rod. That freed up the wheels immediately so I drove
home. Seemed
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to stay jammed until I came up the steep driveway. Now it's free,
with no
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ndication what might have been wrong. The inner sliding tube and
bushings
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ere lubed and moved freely. The brakes and cables were fine; the
wheels
tur=
ned freely after I disconnected the cables even though the tongue
was
still=
jammed in the collapsed position.

One odd thing: the lever that comes out of the lower part of the
tongue
tha=
t pulls the brake rod couldn't be tapped loose. No surprise since
the
inner=
tube was fully collapsed and thus actuating this lever. But on the
way
hom=
e, I stopped again: tongue was still collapsed but this time when I
tapped
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the lever, it came loose and moved freely. I'm just getting into it
now to
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see what might be amiss but has anyone had this problem?

Chip Bearden


JB,

A long time ago, I had a similar problem with the tongue staying
collapsed. It turned out that there was a gas strut inside the tongue
that had failed. Once the gas strut was replaced, all was OK again..
FWIW...

RO