emergency brake

[greg press]

In New York State we have a safety inspection once a year where you get a sticker saying you had it done.My emergency brake wasn’t working ,so I decided to fix it my self traced the lines an discovered that the adjustment is at the pull lever . Easy fix .    How I wished I had of talked here first because I’m sure everyone would of told where it is . Next time here first .

[Peter C. King]

Greg,

 

The emergency brake lever pushes one set of shoes in the rear brakes against the drums.

 

Make sure that the rear brakes are properly adjusted before you take up the slack at the lever.

 

The adjusters at the lever are there to take up stretch in the cables, not to make up for rear brakes that need to be adjusted.

 

BDriver

 

[greg press]

The adjusters had a lot of slack and the nuts had no lock washers so it appears to me they just loosened up with vibration   

[Royal]

Greg, VW installed 2 nuts on each of the adjusters rather than lockwashers.  The reason for this is that if you have the adjusters tight enough for a lockwasher to work – it is too tight and your rear brakes are dragging.  Not good!  

Either put two nuts on each side and, once adjusted, tighten the second nut against the first to “lock” or install a nylock on each cable adjuster.

But first, make sure that the emergency brake is slack and adjust the brakes at the rear drums.

[Steve Struchen]

 Plus one for BDriver and Royal. They gave the correct information to set the brake adjustment.

mustang_evets2014-06-26 18:57:31

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