[V8] E-brake functionality

[Seamus O'Carey]

I might just end up doing that.  I was wrong about the left caliper on the
silver car, it doesn't do the same thing as the one from the pearl car, it's
worse.  The e-brake lever is almost impossible to move and it doesn't move
the piston at all.  So I'm pretty sure I need a new caliper (I've got 6 rear
V8 calipers and I can't use ANY of them to fix my car!).

The best price I've found so far is from autopartswarehouse.com.  It's
$91.75 plus a $61 core and free shipping.  The only thing that concerns me
is that it's made by A1 Cardone.  I don't know who that is.  Who makes the
stock rear brakes and is this one from Cardone going to be as good?

Seamus

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Ingo Rautenberg
<ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com>wrote:

> Funny you should mention that. I have replacement cables, but haven't used
> the e-brake due to sticking caliper issues.
>
> Oh, and the caliper I just replaced was the left rear. If not too far gone,
> one can rebuild the rear calipers. In my case,  I felt the $90 for new
> caliper was well worth it.
>
> On Mar 20, 2010 7:26 PM, "Seamus O&apos;Carey" <cheshirecatsbox at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> How should the e-brake lever on the rear calipers behave when you move it?
>
> The reason I ask is that the e-brake seems to be stuck ON in the silver car
> so I decided to swap the brakes from the pearl car onto it (I put new rear
> brakes on the pearl right after I bought it just over a year ago).  The
> problem is that when I pulled the brakes off the pearl I noticed that the
> left rear rotor appears to have been getting pretty hot.  It's got
> blue/purple discoloration on it (which I'm hoping doesn't mean that it's
> warped), so I'm guessing the pads had been dragging on that side
>
> I suspect the dragging was caused by the e-brake mechanism, so I started
> playing with them.  I noticed that when I moved the e-brake lever on the
> RIGHT caliper back and forth the piston would move in and out just a
> little.  When I did the same thing on the left caliper the piston just kept
> inching outward so that if I'd continued to do it it would eventually push
> the piston all the way out (which is what it was like when I bought the car
> just over a year ago).
>
> So I think the LEFT caliper is not working correctly, but I'm wondering if
> anyone knows if it's possible to fix it.  Does it just need to be cleaned
> and lubed somehow, or is it pretty much screwed?  The big problem is that
> I'm pretty sure the LEFT caliper on the silver car is also doing the same
> thing, which would mean that I have two broken left calipers and two
> working
> right calipers, which doesn't really help me at all.
>
> Seamus
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