parking brake froze?
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Burning Brakes
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From: Dyersburg TN
parking brake froze?
I hear alot about parking brakes freezing , could they freeze in the open postion (unlocked)? I can't seem to get enough slack in my cables to hook everything up.
Burning Brakes
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Re: parking brake froze? (Todbo)
Usually the 'freeze' takes place in the parking brake mechanisms themselves (that's why many C3 owners install the stainless steel parking brake mechanisms) and not actually in the cable, but suppose anything is possible. Once you get yours working, it helps to use the parking brake everytime you park the car, seems to keep everything 'limber', loose and working. Never store the car with the brake applied, because if it does 'freeze' in the on position, you'll smoke the parking brake shoes real good when you start driving it without solving the frozen parking brake situation.
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Burning Brakes
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From: Dyersburg TN
Re: parking brake froze? (john's '81 mouse)
one of my cables wasn't connnected at the rear wheel , I had to disconnect at the hand brake to get enough slack to hook the loose cable up , and now can not get the handbrake rehooked. Haynes says to drill out rivets to remove rear hub , mine have something that looks more like pressed in metal than a rivet , but I guess that tells me my parking brake shoes have never been looked at since the guy put them on in st. louis
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Burning Brakes
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Re: parking brake froze? (paul79)
Star adjuster? I haven't pulled my hubs off yet , I'm going to drill out the rivets this weekend, and try to see if I can get something moving
Racer
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From: ma
Re: parking brake froze? (Todbo)
Mty parking brake cable was froozen or so I thought. It runs to a plastic pulley,what happened was the pulley split down the middle snaring the cable.Make sure about that the cale is free to move FWIW
