I have checked many posts but summer is quite busy time for me and I don't have a spare time to spend on the car. Will must relay on garage unfortunately.
Will try to do a quick check today to see some obvious wear or damage.

 

Did a quick check and looks like there were lots of dirt and rust. Looks like the handbrake shoes are worn and will need to be done. I cleaned inside and out with brake cleaner, then all springs and moving parts sprayed with wd 40. I adjusted the shoes to be quite close to the disc.
I hope it's will work for this time.

 

I found it to be the useless 1930's drum-in-hat style brakes that were the fundamental problem, with mine which has the fold-in-floor seats with three flexible steel parking brake cables even with access to proper ramps, cety-heat, windy tools and a full MOT rolling road I found it difficult to 'balance' the parking brake. I found everything irrelevant when compared to the useless design of the backing plate and in particular the seized brake cam lever that passes through the backing plate - all this appears to have been designed to deliberately encourage every scrap of crap / ice / salt in the world to enter the drum-in-hat itself and sit there for decades. Kiddy-fitters don't rub down de-rust free-off & lubricate, year on year its two shoes in and that'll do as quick as poss.

My point is you have to be pretty near critical perfect with all cable /tensioners / shoes / moving parts / etc adjustments and even then it hardly works with a hand pull - and would certainly never hold it on a hill. Unsurprising really - (1) it was not designed for a hand and (2) its a technology that was discredited 61 years ago and never replaced by Chrysler. In my opinion even the front disks are undersized for this weight of vehicle. My 05 is 11.06" .. .. and the later models were upgraded to a still inadequate 11.41" and only then, 35 years after the rest of the world made disks all round a standard, they put disks on front and rear of the Voyager and shoes inside a top-hat as a handbrick.

To finish .......................

- car in park
- engine on
- footbrake hard on
- at least 3 or more hard pulls on the handbrick
- should self adjust via the Y cable & clockspring

 

I knew the shelf adjusting method. Did it already.

Unfortunately yesterday I faced new problem . One out of the ten times when I pull the handbrake I have a feeling like the cable snaps off. It just fall through. If I release the handbrake and pull handle again it's working. Unfortunately I have never used the handbrake on this car apart from day one when I just tried it a little bit. So I am not sure if this fault was there or I did something wrong while I did cleaning.

 

I don't think you've done anything wrong, you should have 3 clicks or so on the reset handbrake, that should give your your %. They are only supposed to be pulled on @ stop, the auto-box locks when in park. If you fitted new shoes and want to go the whole 9 yards burn the new shoes in [leading / trailing] and do another adjust up.

 

Hm, unfortunately mine is not holding at 3 clicks. I must do at least 6-7. I'm wondering how do they check at MOT, hopefully they pull the handle till end?
Handbrake have a huge improvement after cleaning, but as I mentioned only if if been pulled almost till end.
Looks like the shoes must be done.

 

6 or 7 is way too much, did you ["handbrake shoes are worn - #12"] decide they needed replacing ?, most shoes will bite till they are almost on metal. The cam through the backplate / adjuster lever actuator spring and knurled adjuster are the critical bits to get right having double the thickness of pad to start with is always a good starting point.

I've never known any 3 ton lump like this obey the requirement not to roll down a 3 in 1 forward or backward, its the nature of the beast. Knowing how they check @ MOT is not going to help. Your photo's show yours as in a lot lot better knick than many posts here on this forum and many hopeless rusted to hell examples have passed while others have failed. Best of luck !

 

MOT passed. Thanks for advices.

 

Good for you with the pass. Mines going to need a good service soon before MOT in November. Really needing back plates at the back though, but at about £100 a side that's a big service.