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Originally Posted by Billfitz
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Originally Posted by Watsey
.you need to be able to hold each wheel motionless, with a wheel bolt hole positioned precisely in-line with the parking shoe adjuster, and make the adjustment while the engine/AT is trying to turn the wheel.
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There's no need for that. Put one wheel bolt in place and use your socket wrench to turn the rotor, listening and feeling for the shoes to drag, one rotation at a time. You can even do it with the wheel on the car. Completely unscrew one wheel stud on each rear wheel. Turn the wheel until adjustment screw is visible in threaded hole. Turn the adjusting screw with a screwdriver until wheel can not be turned anymore by hand, then back off the adjustment until it just will turn.
By his description the OPs problem was caused by corrosion, which will happen in areas with normal or high humidity if the brakes aren't regularly cleaned and lubricated. |
Not sure what caused it, car was only on 65k but the parking brake on that side just sucked. Things inside didn't look particularly controversial and no worse than the opposite side which worked ok. They recommended a strip clean and roughen as suspected glazed pad but as above decided may as well put new ones on and take it all off for a good clean out.