Seized handbrake lever on rear caliper...

[Kneale Brownson]

The suggestion (by someone else) was to drill and tap the chamber into 
which the parking brake lever's shaft sits and then install a grease zerk 
so that grease could be added to the chamber occasionally.  I'm not sure 
what grease you'd add through the zerk, and I'd be concerned that if you 
pumped a bit with a grease gun, you might force grease past the seal 
between the parking brake system's chamber and the cylinder for the brake 
piston.  I don't know how well grease and brake fluid would mix.


At 09:42 AM 12/06/2000 +0200, Gerard wrote:

> > Its a grease nipple - these repressed Yanks don't
> > like saying 'nipple'......
>
>Ah, I see now. I got 2 of those....urh, in the control arms of the car
>'cos I had the balljoints "rejuvenated" so they came with a grease
>nipple to grease them up every 10,000km. How does one fit these things
>into the calipers?
>
>G.
>
>