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Re: '69 95 parking brake
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Posted by spiv (more from spiv) on Sun, 16 Feb 2003 00:56:39 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: '69 95 parking brake, Ed Schaffer, Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:28:15
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Nope, it's not normal -- parking brake should hold very securely by the time you've pulled up the lever to the fourth or fifth click. The parking brake system is really simple, so it shouldn't be hard to figure out what's going wrong. You say you've adjusted the rear brakes -- do they stop the drums when you step on the brake pedal? (Try it with the back of the car jacked up.) If they do, then you presumably can rule out problems with the linings etc., so it's got to be the parking brake actuating levers in the backing plates, or the cables, or the cable adjusting nuts at the base of the handbrake lever.

The actuating levers (the ones that stick out of the backing plates) are in an exposed location and can get out of whack pretty easily -- try spinning a drum and see if it stops when you press forward on the lever with your thumb. If that's okay, then the cables may have stretched (gee, why would they do that? they're only 35 years old!) in which case you can take up the slack via the adjusting nuts at the base of the handbrake lever. Try that last, though -- lots of times people tighten up the cable nuts when the problem is really someplace else, and then the parking brake won't release properly.

If you can't zero in on the problem this way, you may have to pull the drums off and look at what the brake shoes do when you put on the parking brake -- the actuating lever may not be seated properly in its notch in the brake shoe, or the shoes may be hanging up on the backing plate. The vibration you mention sounds as if the shoes aren't seated properly and are rubbing on the drum, but that's just a guess.

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