Parking brake issue please help

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Old 10-15-2012, 03:23 PM
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Parking brake issue please help

Finishing up rear brakes in my 08 tl type s automatic I originally herd scraping which is the shoes on the parking brake touching the rotor so I adjust the shoes out roughly with the spinner behind the rotor or on bottom of parking brake. I have them around 8-10 clicks out from in. Car has 90k miles on it. I now have it where there is no sound when pb is off and rotor spins freely. With 1 click of the pb engaged from In The car I here a small scrape from the pads hitting rotor. Perfect right. With fully engaged I can't really move rotor by hand but when install tire still on jacks I can move the tire a little. Ain't the pb suppose to lock the tire pretty much because it is not. My only other guess is I believe I have it set correct but maybe the cable needs adjustments now and not the wheel on the bottom of the pb from the rear. Any thoughts?
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Im in the same boat as you.

as many times as i adjust the rear drum, as soon as i put wheels on and test on an incline, the car doesnt hold...
GRRRR

there is a cable adjustment inside the car.
you have to tear into the middle console to get to it tho
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Ya what the heck. I was thinking of ordering new pb shoes but Acura dealer said he has never sold a set meaning they really never need replacement. I doub it's that Eathier. Sometimes when I put barking brake on the off then off. The rotor scraped a tad again which I believe is caused from the shoes movie and are not centered again. This whole thing is frustrating but have u messed with the adj under center console? Did that fix it
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Originally Posted by justnspace

there is a cable adjustment inside the car.
you have to tear into the middle console to get to it tho
if you call opening a cap on the bottom of the center console "tear into the middle console"....I can adjust my ebrake in 30 seconds. you will need a 12mm deep socket for the adjustment.
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why thank you george.
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I will give it a shot. I am worried because I adjusted the bottom pb lever knob to where my pb and rear rotor is silent When I spin rotor. My only concern is when I pull pb lever in car it works but not to a ton of force and wheel will spin but hard to kae it spin. After I release all the way I still here a small scrape when I spin rotor. It's like the pb shoe assembly does not realign center on the hub to where it does not scrape any part of the rotor. Again this is very minor but annoying? Thoughts???
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Anyone? How do I keep pb assem centered so when I pull pb lever in car it does not move slightest bit and then scrape rotor which I then hear while driving which is no good. Any advice please while I have wheels off and can make adj as needed


I have been testing this with the caliper off. Then when I put tire on to just see if it will turn with the leverage of my hands on the wheel spokes trying to spin wheel forward it does go forward with little bit of force. However this is still all testing with caliper or rear brakes off. Do the rear brakes have anything to do with stopping the wheel when pb is yanked. If so maybe the rear tires wouldn't spin then. I don't think the rear brakes have anything to do with the pb lever and shoes though do they.

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Need car back together by tomorrow. Anyone?
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Parking brake is only for rear shoes (inside rotor), nothing with the caliper.



Does anyone know if its normal for the rear wheel (parking brake set) can move forward/backward just slightly (while rear jacked up)? My PB works perfectly fine holding the car.

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