[s-cars] Sticky rear e-brake.

[Peter Schulz]

John:

Data point:

The rebuilt rear calipers (Morse) on the indigo mica wagon are three years old.
They are now sticking (ebrake mechanism)

I rebuilt the ones on the grey wagon myself and packed the ebrake mechanism cylinder with synthetic brake grease.
two clicks on the parking brake and they hold.

I will have to perform a postmortem soon on the sticking calipers, but I'll bet that the rebuilder either didn't clean and repack the mechanism cylinder, or did not replace the o ring on that seals the E brake cam shaft against the caliper body


-Peter

At 07:52 PM 11/21/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I've found that replacing the pads in the rear can actually serve as a
>temporary remedy to this problem (should work 10k+ miles). However,
>"loaded, rebuilt calipers" aren't extremely expensive, and if you can find
>a good price, it's likely the better option.
>
>hope this helps
>-John
>
>At 07:41 PM 11/21/2002 -0500, Joseph Hevner wrote:
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>>Greetings!
>>Any body have a good fix for a rear caliper that sticks when the e-brake
>>is used?,,short of getting a new/rebuilt caliper?
>>Thanks!
>>Joe
>>'94urs4
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Peter Schulz
1990 CQ
1991 200 20v TQW indigo mica
1991 200 20v TQW titanium grey
Chelmsford, MA USA
peschulz at cisco.com