[Shotimes] Parking brake

[Michael S Wojton]

I need some advice from someone who's "been there and done that".
When parking brake is set, the car can still move.  On my slightly
angled driveway. I have to force the pedal done as far as it can possibly
go to keep the car from rolling backwards after I start it.  That kinda
scares me.

Mark Mallory and I looked at it this weekend.  The cables are not frozen.
On the driver's side, their is no slack in the cable at the caliper.  On the
passenger side, there is about a 1/4" of cable sticking out past the end
of the caliper.

Now, when the parking brake is set, the slack on the passenger side is
gone.  And, in fact, that is the side that is the tightest.  That rotor cannot
be rotated.  Not by hand anyways.  But the driver's side rotor can still be
turned by hand.  So we figured it needed to be adjusted.  We were going
to try to adjust the nut on the bracket on the cable under the car until we
got it to work fine.  I say we WERE, because we couldn't.  The nut wouldn't
budge.  Tried PB Blaster too.  When I have more time, I'll try some heat.

So I guess what I'm asking is, is that the right course of action?  By
adjusting
that nut, that is adjusting the driver's side brake, I believe.  It seemed to
make
sense to us.  Also, when the parking brake is not set, the cable hangs down
a little under the car.  Can that be adjusted out at the brake pedal?  The
pedal
is pretty easy to push down, by the way.


Mike Wojton
Toledo, Ohio

-'95 Green MTX  3/01-1/03
   ShoShop y-pipe

-'95 White Mtx
   '96 Brake Upgrade

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