[V8] Vl: E-brake functionality

[ville.hiivola at suomi24.fi]

What you describe your left calibers function, i think the e-brake 
system is SUPPOSED to function this way, when there is slack. This 
is 

the automatic adjustment, that it's supposed to do when the brake 
pads 

wear.



Villle



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>>Lähettäjä: cheshirecatsbox at gmail.com

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>>Päivämäärä: 21.03.2010 1:18

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>>Vastaanottaja: "v8"<V8 at audifans.com>

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>>Aihe: [V8] E-brake functionality

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>>I suspect the dragging was caused by the e-brake mechanism, so I 

>started

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>>playing with them.  I noticed that when I moved the e-brake lever 
on 

>the

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>>RIGHT caliper back and forth the piston would move in and out just a

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>>little.  When I did the same thing on the left caliper the piston 
just 

>kept

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>>inching outward so that if I'd continued to do it it would 
eventually 

>push

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>>the piston all the way out (which is what it was like when I bought 

>the car

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>>just over a year ago).

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>>So I think the LEFT caliper is not working correctly, but I'm 

>wondering if

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>>anyone knows if it's possible to fix it.  Does it just need to be 

>cleaned

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>>and lubed somehow, or is it pretty much screwed?  The big problem 
is 

>that

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>>I'm pretty sure the LEFT caliper on the silver car is also doing 
the 

>same

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>>thing, which would mean that I have two broken left calipers and 
two 

>working

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>>right calipers, which doesn't really help me at all.

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>>Seamus

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