Curious as to if the rear parking brake shoes automatically adjust or tighten with wear. Thanks!
1997 Rear parking brake
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Thanks!
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So, I did the manual adjustment of the parking brake which is tightening of the brake until the rotor doesn't turn and back off 8 turns. I then adjusted the bell crank cable on the back which needed a little tighter than what appeared to be original. I'm guessing that's normal from wear and tear.
the shoes dont really ware much unless you drive around with the parking break on, your more likely to get some slop in the cables from parts rusting and not moving as freely as they used to.
What's a parking brake? says the guy from the rust belt in Minnesota who's E-brake stuff is all corroded and frozen.
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I did find slight wear in the brake shoes from the donor axles but didn't see any real reason to change them out since I couldn't get ahold of some extra friction shoes from down under in the time constraints I have right now. Maybe next time. I did find a frozen bell crank in the original axle. Everything seems to be working well with this swap now. I need to check if there is cable adjustment at the hand brake side of things.