Parking Brake Cable Adjustment

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Recently my brake handle had to be raised almost all the way to get the park
brakes to hold. I know the pads are getting thin, and that accounts for part
of it. But what I did was to remove the brake cable from caliper acuating
arm, popped out the arm that 1/4 inch, cleaned and lubed, and then worked
the arm back and forth a few times. I don't know how these work internally,
but this took the slack out. After attaching the cable, the handle is back
to it's normal position.  I only did this on the right side.

Gary Martin
94 UrS4
91 200 TQA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Tanimura" <richard at tanimuras.com>
To: "Steve Sherman" <spsherm at attglobal.net>; "20v" <200q20v at audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 2:33 AM
Subject: RE: Parking Brake Cable Adjustment


> Steve,
>
> Thanks for that post. Mine won't grab either. I will have a look at the
> wires. Audi parking brakes are a PITA.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 200q20v-admin at audifans.com [mailto:200q20v-admin at audifans.com]On
> Behalf Of Steve Sherman
> Sent: den 16 juni 2003 06:24
> To: 20v
> Subject: Parking Brake Cable Adjustment
>
>
> After reading all the post recently, and in the archives, it seemed a
> long shot that my parking brake problems (lack of grip even when the
> lever was all the way up) could be solved by adjusting the cables.  Even
> so, I lowered the exhaust and removed the sheild and took a look in
> there.  The adjuster had 1/2" of play on the threaded shaft, that is
> that much movement before the cables started to move.  I tightened that
> up until there was what a guessed to be just a couple of threads of
> free-play.  Been driving for a week with this fix, and the PB problems
> seem to be solved; and no signs of rear brakes sticking on.
>
> The cables look fairly new, so the only thing that make sense is that
> whoever put the new cables in never adjusted the cables correctly.
>  Either that or there was recently a plastic part that cracked in the PB
> lever mechanism giving alot more travel to the threaded rod, or the
> adjusting nut moved back on the rod.
>
> Perhaps this was the exception, but tightening the cables seem to work
> for me.....
>
>
>
>
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