Got to stop posting/boasting Was:rear caliper

[Kneale Brownson]

At 01:42 PM 11/23/2002 -0800, james accordino wrote:
>Well the written word has once again bit me in the
>a$$.  The rear calipers I rebuilt 65k? miles ago and
>were working so beautifully no longer do.  Friday
>morning 4:30 a.m. leave for work.  Drive about 5 miles
>to the coffee/fuel hole and right rear rotor is cherry
>red.  Damn.  I KNOW what this means.  I had the
>e-brake on all night.  While I'm getting my Joe and
>then refueling, I debate my options.  Decide "screw it
>and drive to work (118 miles).  No problems.  Neither
>coming home or going to work and back again today
>(Sat.), plus my old high schools state playoff game
>last night.  (We won! Yeah!)  Anyway so over 500 miles
>with no repeat of the problem and UNBELIEVABLY the
>rotors not warped.  It's a Zimmerman.  I have only
>used the e-brake twice for very short periods of time.
>  I'm convinced the problem lies in the internals of
>that mechanism.  Time to redo this.  When/if I find
>where I put the snap ring installation tool I'll try
>to take a pic. with my friends digi cam.  I guesss it
>was time.

I'd be glad to have the pix, Jim, but before you tear into the caliper, be
sure the cables themselves operate OK.