Found it. It was Posers thread and it was even stickied… I was blinded by my anger: Parking brake? - https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/parking-brake.135349/ I swear I saw a post in here about someone who did a complete tear down and rebuild of their rear brake assembly and repaired the parking brake lever assembly (whatever it's called) but I've been searching for the last hour and can NOT find it. If someone has the link handy and could share it, I would be very VERY appreciative.
I thought I was in the home stretch for getting my rust bucket ready for the rebuild inspection only to find out that for some God forsaken reason the parking brake is part of a safety inspection. Never mind that this truck is more structurally sound and better running than a large percentage of the cars that I see on the road today. But if the HAND BRAKE DOESN'T WORK I can't pass the inspection! Can you IMAGINE! What would I do to keep my car from rolling away without it! Maybe they should put... IDK, a position on the transmission CALLED PARK!
ANYWAY! Mini-rant over....
I am beyond frustrated right now. I knew the hand brake didn't engage, I had only checked the driver's rear and knew it was seized. I went underneath this evening to start working on freeing it up and saw that the passenger side moved. COOL!... or so I thought. Upon further inspection, that little aluminum arm that juts out from the back that is the pivot for the brake lever on the inside of the drum just disintegrated when I peeled the boot back! I couldn't BELIEVE it. Seized, sure. But I didn't think it would literally just crumble on me when I tried to inspect it!
Now I'm looking at a full rebuild of the rear parking brake assembly and I've got less than a week to get source parts and get it done or I'm going to have to shelve this project for over two months while Summer Happens™.
Anyway! Sorry for the rant and thank you for reading this far if you did. I needed to get that off my chest to some folks that might understand my frustration.
If you have tips or anything about how to get this taken care of, even if "take it to a shop" is the answer to getting the fastest rebuild done, I'm all ears. I just need this hell I'm in to be over so I can just have a normal truck again!
I thought I was in the home stretch for getting my rust bucket ready for the rebuild inspection only to find out that for some God forsaken reason the parking brake is part of a safety inspection. Never mind that this truck is more structurally sound and better running than a large percentage of the cars that I see on the road today. But if the HAND BRAKE DOESN'T WORK I can't pass the inspection! Can you IMAGINE! What would I do to keep my car from rolling away without it! Maybe they should put... IDK, a position on the transmission CALLED PARK!
ANYWAY! Mini-rant over....
I am beyond frustrated right now. I knew the hand brake didn't engage, I had only checked the driver's rear and knew it was seized. I went underneath this evening to start working on freeing it up and saw that the passenger side moved. COOL!... or so I thought. Upon further inspection, that little aluminum arm that juts out from the back that is the pivot for the brake lever on the inside of the drum just disintegrated when I peeled the boot back! I couldn't BELIEVE it. Seized, sure. But I didn't think it would literally just crumble on me when I tried to inspect it!
Now I'm looking at a full rebuild of the rear parking brake assembly and I've got less than a week to get source parts and get it done or I'm going to have to shelve this project for over two months while Summer Happens™.
Anyway! Sorry for the rant and thank you for reading this far if you did. I needed to get that off my chest to some folks that might understand my frustration.
If you have tips or anything about how to get this taken care of, even if "take it to a shop" is the answer to getting the fastest rebuild done, I'm all ears. I just need this hell I'm in to be over so I can just have a normal truck again!
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