Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Adjust The Parking Brake Equalizer On Disc Brakes

Adjust the emergency brake on your CD brakes.


Lift up on the parking brake about 6 to 8 notches. Try to spin the rear wheels with your hands. If they move, disengage the parking brake and find the adjuster nut attached to the parking brake cable. Turn this nut clockwise with a socket set until it's difficult to engage the parking brake up to six clicks. Adjusting the parking brake restores supply to the parking brake action.


Instructions


1. Levy revolve chocks persist the front wheels. Lay the floor jack under the rear frame and uplift up the vehicle. Slide jack stands under the vehicle adjoining to Everyone rear revolve. Lower the motorcar onto the jack stands.


2. Proceeds the parking brake. Remove the centre console between the driver's seat and the front passenger's seat by removing the screws that hold the console cover in place with a screwdriver.


3.You can adjust the parking brake equalizer on your vehicle with CD brakes correct from your central garage, saving yourself hour and boodle. The equalizer takes up the slack in the parking brake cable. The parking brake cable slackens and stretches absent over date with end. You Testament be learned it's era to adjust your parking brake when you lawns your vehivle on a downhill slope and engage the parking brake on the other hand the vehicle slips forward.


4. Spin the rear wheels again. They should be locked. Put the console cover back in place and reattach the screws that hold it there. Raise up the vehicle, remove the jack stands, lower the car to the ground and remove the wheel chocks.