parking brake adjustment

[TN_Midnight Sky]

How do you adjust (tighten) the parking brake?:

[Skip]

Originally Posted by TN_Midnight Sky

How do you adjust (tighten) the parking brake?:

Most newer autos ...go into reverse and back up...pull up e-brake and stop...do again if not tightened up...Skip....

[|V3nom|]

i usually just pull on the handle lol. idk, i know you can do that do adjust the rear brakes in general, at least on a vehicle with drum brakes, not so sure about rear disc or the parking brake.

[GaryH]

I took my Sky to the dealer for the same thing. They adjusted something as far as it would go and said they had to replace a brake caliper.

[WishfulThinking]

Originally Posted by Skip

Most newer autos ...go into reverse and back up...pull up e-brake and stop...do again if not tightened up...Skip....

I thought the while-backing-up adjustments were usually for drum brakes.(?)

[Excelsior]

the backing up method os very good for dislodging things that get caught in both drum and rotor brakes.

[Skip]

Originally Posted by WishfulThinking

I thought the while-backing-up adjustments were usually for drum brakes.(?)

Iffen you ever have to replace the rear brake pads you will notice that the calipers have to be screwed in to replace the pads. This is cause the pads in order to keep contact with the rotors have the calipers screw outwards as the pads wear. When changing the pads you apply pressure and screw the calipers in. As the pads wear and then you want to use the E-brake, you back up and apply the E-brake and the calipers screw outwards to make up the slack in the position of the pads. It is the way that I have adjusted my e-brake over all the vechicles that I have owned....and besides I think this is covered in the owners manual which is in my Sky and I am just too lazy to go look it up.....Skip...

[WishfulThinking]

Originally Posted by Skip

Iffen you ever have to replace the rear brake pads you will notice that the calipers have to be screwed in to replace the pads. This is cause the pads in order to keep contact with the rotors have the calipers screw outwards as the pads wear. When changing the pads you apply pressure and screw the calipers in. As the pads wear and then you want to use the E-brake, you back up and apply the E-brake and the calipers screw outwards to make up the slack in the position of the pads. It is the way that I have adjusted my e-brake over all the vechicles that I have owned....and besides I think this is covered in the owners manual which is in my Sky and I am just too lazy to go look it up.....Skip...

Interesting. I don't have a Sky yet, so I can't speak to how it works. Other rear rotors that I've looked at, have pins on the back of the pad that engage the piston and prevent it from turning. Since the e-brake itself is engaged with a twisting motion, the piston can't be allowed to move. In those cases, I think the threads in the piston kind-of rachet down the screw as the piston is extended by hydraulic pressure. (I can't remember what the name is for that type of connection. You see variations of it on clamps that slide into a close postion and then twist to tighten down.)

Anyway, I'm not arguing with anyone. It just sounds different, and I'd just be interested to see how it works.

[TN_Midnight Sky]

My other cars have had little brake shoes inside the rotor hub....i don't think that the parking brake activates the rear disc brake system, but rather the little shoes that you can't see unless you pull the rotor.