Minimum Rotor Thickness on 2011 GS
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From: Far NW 'burbs of Chicago
St. Jude Donor '13
Hmmm...
I can get our E brake to hold well by using a steady pull, if I pull it up tight enough. The difference is that it's easier to get it pulled tighter if you do the yank.
Maybe that's what you were saying...
I can get our E brake to hold well by using a steady pull, if I pull it up tight enough. The difference is that it's easier to get it pulled tighter if you do the yank.
Maybe that's what you were saying...
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All you had to do is back up and apply the brake for a ratchet mechanism to move a wheel that adjusted the shoes. It all worked well on paper or until you introduce a little water, maybe some road salt and grim then everything froze-up. Well your Corvette E-Brake has this same feature.....it will (when working correctly) automatically adjust itself by backing up and pulling up on the E-Brake handle repetitively (keeping your thumb on the release button).
As for the quick way to tell if the E brakes need to be adjusted (star adjusters), pull up hard on the e brake handle, and see where it stops.
Adjusted correctly, handle should be stopped about half way up (Mine about 9 clicks up and the last click pulling very hard since I just readjusted mine a few months back), and holds the car still, even on a steep incline very well.
Handle all the way up (well past 13 clicks up on the handle), and still wants to roll on even a slight incline, time to adjust the E brakes.
P.S, when you adjust the e brakes, you do not want the shoes to rub at all on the drums when you rotate the rotors, with the E brake lever in the down position!!!!! If they rub with the handle down, going to heat up the E brake shoe, and just cause them to start to bind. If you every made the mistake of putting the E brake on after hot laps, only to find that they will not disengage, pretty much the same problem.
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Count clicks up on the handle then the final click with a hard pull.
I'm at 8 with a normal pull with fresh adjusted E brakes, and if I pull hard enough on the handle (feels like I about to break it), can get a 9th click.
Simply, everyone that says that the E brake does not hold very well, does not have them adjusted correctly (even worse with new brakes or just pad swaps, since it the part of the adjustment that is often missed).
Bluntly, I can part my vet on a 60* incline, pull the e brake, put the car in neutral, and get out of it without it rolling.
The E brake works very well on the C6, but just have to remember that is a shoe compound material that does not want to see much heat, so when adjusting the E brake shoe, again, make sure that its not rubbing on the drum when the rotor is free spun with the E brake handle down (why I pull the calipers both sides to adjust them, so I can here if the shoe is rubbing or not when I spin the rotors).
I also think the e-brake works very well
