Reply to "Emergency Brake not holding?"

bosswrenchMember

Yeah, Kaama, its mechanical- what happens is, you pull the cable & the whole caliper moves against the big horse-shoe shaped steel loop surrounding the rear caliper. The e-brake pad is actually the non-moving one. The brake is self-adjusting if you put the car in reverse and hit the e- brakes in that direction a few times- somehow it takes up the slack in the cable. And this only happens if the slot in the piston is turned 45 degrees to the vertical, by the way; there's a clevis inside the caliper body that actuates in that position. If the slot is vertical, the clevis releases & no self-adjusting occurs.Try this before messing with the adjusters.

7/15/0412:36 PM

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