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tristancliffe, you are exactly correct in what you say as regards turning the engine the wrong way. Some of the auto cam belt adjusters will slacken the belt off and sometimes will jump the sprockets when trying to start the next time.
Also while I am waffling on, I had a customer that parked an automatic (in park) that was hit from behind that broke something in the auto transmission that cost a fortune to repair !
As for what the thread is all about I can't for the life of me see why they have to complicate things, as you can't really improve on a reliable decent lever and linkage design IMHO. Is it because the human race is getting weaker and can't pull the handbrake on hard enough or car designers running out of ideas ?
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