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Re: Sticky E-Brake
Posted by Stephen Goldberger [Email] (more from Stephen Goldberger) on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:33:01
In Reply to: Sticky E-Brake, Alex, Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:21:04
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Unlike a lot of Saabs, the 9-5 (and NG900 and OG9-3) use a separate drum brake for the e-brake function. If I were you,
a) I'd not use it until I worked out the problem, but don't worry, your main brakes are totally separate. The only part in common is the rear brake disk, which also serves as the drum for the parking brake, so unless the hub falls off the car...
b) Some likeley mechanisms: corroded or ice-blocked cables, rusted up brake internals, broken parts inside the brake mechanism or the brake lever. Drum brake shoes are typically mounted on little springs and they slide against the brake backing plate. Note that there is also, typically, a "servo" action with drum brakes - the friction forces of the shoes against the drum causes the shoe to hold tighter.
I have to say, though, that I pulled the rear rotor off this past summer so's I could learn how to adjust the rear shoes (I knew it had to do with the tiny little adjusting hole, but absent a tiny spy camera I couldn't make out exactly what I was seeing through the hole. Turned out, it was I expected to see, just couldn't make sense of it.) Anyway, everything was pretty clean in there - no sign of road dirt or rusting, despite having spent three or four winters "up north".
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