Make him buy you a turbo kit...haha. sorry for the loss.

 

waiting for pics

 

hey guys when you start to notice that your parking brake isnt holding anymore, just go get it adjusted!! As you wear your brakes down (rears) you will have to pull on the hand brake farther and farther, this is the quick fix to take care of this, its just a normal thing that will happen especially with these cars having such soft pads. Hope this helps and best of luck fixing your car.

 

Actually ur brakes and E brakes are separate entitys----Pads for the brakes, Shoes for the E-Brake ---But --ya ---u can easily adjust ur E Brake----Its set up like the old Corvettes

 

agreed. this is a car you must be very careful about when parking on an incline.

 

Is it possible we can have someone who knows what they're doing do a write up on E-Brake adjustment?

I'm sure it would help all of us out.

 

The E-Brakes should be self adjustable, It is a shoe brake that is no differant than what was on a 57 Chevy as a standard drum brake, There has been no refinment. Its design is over 60 yrs old.
BUT--- as we all know, they do get out of adjustment. If u dont drive with ur E brake on or use it for race purposes the shoe will last a VERY long time. Possibly for the life of ur car, all it does is lock the rear wheels at a dead stop.
But **** happens---U get cable stetch, u get freeze up on the star adjuster and if u seldomly use ur E Brake, because of crap that gets in the cable, when u do use it, it will lock in a engaged state.
Pull off ur rotors,Spray everything with Brake Cleaner,disassemble the E-Brake components keeping in mind which spring goes where,and whats up and down on the shoes. Lay everything in order next to u, there is the adjuster on top called the star adjuster,make sure u make a mental note of which end faces front and rear, Spray again including shoes. At pivot points and wear points on the backing plate apply a small amoint of Hi temp Brake assy grease, unscrew the adjuster making sure the threads are cleaned and lube them.
Re assemble with the adjuster all the way screwed in. Measure the distance across the shoes and the rotor drum, run ur adjuster out til u get within slightly less than rotor drum DIA. Making sure every thing is centered and the drum is tite against the hub, spin the rotor and readjust til it barely rubs, apply the E-Brake and chk again. That will compress and center everything. Repeat til u get that slight rubbing.
Disassemble one side at a time so u can reference it on reassy.

I went A-Z here just to explain all. Simple adjustment can be done by manually turning the star adjuster to tighten the gap between shoes and drum but disassembly helps in the very important clean and relube

 

pics?

 

Love too ---But Im dial up and it takes forever. I was going to change my avitar last nite and gave up after 45 minutes

 

lol

 

it's not emergency brakes.....just parking brake lever.... the parking brake lever will only lock the brakes up when pulled and cause you to skid/slide which isn't preferable for controlled driving... i guess it only helps on rally drifting.... rolling resistance is better at stopping a car than tire sliding friction... why do you thing the ABS was invented.... i've never had my car roll when the parking brake is applied.... especially if it is in first gear... that is 2 redundant safeguards.... if the car still rolls then both systems needs a mjor lookover....

 

Good luck on the fix.

 

good luck duder

 

Let's see some pics of the carnage

 

dam pics take forever

 

i know... i even clicked page 2 hoping to see some pics of the carnage