[Shotimes] Re: cables

[Ron Porter]

I would only do that after replacing both e-brake cables. Sticky cables are
very common, especially in the Great White North.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 3:31 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Re: cables


Well, the passenger rear is staerting to drag all the time now.  But
neither one of them releases fully after releasing the parking brake.
You can watch them with the wheels removed; the lever never springs
back.  I need to check the slider pins too, but after replacing them
with brand new ones, fully greased, they still wouldn't release.  I
don't use it anymore unless I absolutely have to.  I'm starting to suspect
Mark Mallory's theory: bent caliper brackets.  He claimed he had
the same problem, only cured after replacing the brackets with new
ones.  We'll see.


Mike Wojton
Toledo, Ohio

-'95 White MTX
   '96 Brake Upgrade

"Avoid the clap." - Jimmy Dugan




shotimes-admin@autox.team.net wrote on 09/08/2004 12:55:28 PM:

> If the release problem is only after using the e-brake, that has nothing 
to
> do with the rubber brake lines. If the lines are swelled up, they will 
drag
> virtually all the time.....after using the brake pedal and not the 
e-brake.
> 
> FWIW, my LR caliper didn't start hanging up until after the rubber lines
> were replaced.......really no connection between the two (I suspect my 
LR
> e-brake cable).
> 
> Ron Porter
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net 
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of John Stout
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:50 AM
> To: Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com; shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Re: cables
> 
> 
> Mike, check your hoses, they will swell shut and not let the fluid 
release,
> been there done that, hope this helps
> 
> Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com wrote:It might not be the cables. Neither of my
> calipers release after using
> the parking brake. I had the cables replaced, but it didn't help. I'm
> just about ready to replace the rubber hoses and put in the bias plugs
> and do a full bleed if I can ever find the time. And this is after
> replacing both calipers with quality parts from NAPA. One of them
> twice, by the way.
> 
> 
> Mike Wojton
> Toledo, Ohio
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