Topic: Parking Brake Adjustment
in Forum: C3 Driveline Components
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Just rebuilt parking brakes and I'm having trouble adjusting them to be tight but not to tight. I adjusted them up tight turning the rotor by hand and backed off enough clicks where they weren't rubbing hard on both sides so I don't think it is the shoe adjustment. How tight should the cable be under the car?
--Eric
--Eric
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The cable should be adjusted so the emergency brakes
hold the car with the lever about 2/3 of the way up.
The factory manual calls for torquing the cable nut
to 80 inch lbs with the handdle pulled up 14 clicks
or something like that-just adjust it so it works.
Steve
hold the car with the lever about 2/3 of the way up.
The factory manual calls for torquing the cable nut
to 80 inch lbs with the handdle pulled up 14 clicks
or something like that-just adjust it so it works.
Steve
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thanks.. i was looking for exactly that info..
by the way... I had my brakes working pretty good.. then they went slack.. my new SS brake kit only had one nut on the cable adjuster.. and I forgot to add another nut to lock it..
sometimes I surprise myself.
by the way... I had my brakes working pretty good.. then they went slack.. my new SS brake kit only had one nut on the cable adjuster.. and I forgot to add another nut to lock it..
sometimes I surprise myself.
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