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  • Re: Parking Brake Slipping

    mark drillock · Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:37:16 -0700 · Mailing-list archive

    You should remove the drums and look at the brake hardware. The parking brake cable moves a lever that is attached to the rear...

  • Re: Rear Brakes: E-brake lever lube, E-brake spring function (purpose)

    Dennis Haynes · Thu, 5 May 2016 20:52:41 -0400 · Mailing-list archive

    ...Rear Brakes: E-brake lever lube, E-brake spring function (purpose) Hi all. If an e-brake cable spring has gotten weaker due to...

  • Re: Rear Brakes: E-brake lever lube, E-brake spring function (purpose)

    Dennis Haynes · Thu, 5 May 2016 20:14:02 -0400 · Mailing-list archive

    ...Rear Brakes: E-brake lever lube, E-brake spring function (purpose) Hi all. If an e-brake cable spring has gotten weaker due to...

  • Re: later model parking brake lever

    vw_van_fan_Mark · Mon, 2 Jul 2018 09:51:32 -0700 · Mailing-list archive

    ...Mark pickle vanagon wrote: > I've heard that he 86 and up vanagons have a different style e-brake lever > that offers more mechanical...

  • Rear Brakes: E-brake lever lube, E-brake spring function (purpose)

    Neil N · Thu, 5 May 2016 13:22:40 -0700 · Mailing-list archive

    ...30% worn) but along with other list advice, I now strongly suspect that either the e-brake lever at a shoe or shoes and...

  • Parking Brake ?

    John Lauterbach · Mon, 28 Jan 2002 00:05:21 -0500 · Mailing-list archive

    I had the rear brakes on my '84 7-passenger redone in December. Parking brake lever, of course was much tighter than before. On...

  • Re: Parking Brake Slipping

    Fredrich Hesterberg · Mon, 12 Aug 2002 21:02:26 -0500 · Mailing-list archive

    ...I have found this is most important for parking brake, and regular brake to be working good. Lever is important, but no adjust is...

  • Is this normal?

    William A. McKinley · 29 Apr 96 20:27:00 EDT · Mailing-list archive

    ...A lot less stress on the parking brake hardware, and it will always set the brake harder than pulling the lever alone (the parking...

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