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Re: E-brake cables

To: sbabbar@iris.nyit.edu (Sachelle Babbar)
Subject: Re: E-brake cables
From: Andrew Duane USG/PE <duane@zk3.dec.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:49:01 -0500 (EST)
Cc: quattro@coimbra.ans.net (Quattro List)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980106142550.27935A-100000@iris.nyit.edu> from "Sachelle Babbar" at Jan 6, 98 02:27:28 pm
Reply-To: duane@zk3.dec.com
Sender: owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net

Hairy green toads from Mars made Sachelle Babbar say:

> One of my ebrake cables doesn't actuate the mechanism anymore. Any reason
> for this? I've heard once before that with age, the Audi cables go bad.
> Why? How do I go about fixing this?

The pivots on the brake calipers that the cable pulls on also
get old and frozen. See if you can move it by hand. If not,
you need a whole new GD caliper!

-- 

Andrew L. Duane (JOT-7)			duane@zk3.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corporation		(603)-884-1294
110 Spit Brook Road
M/S ZKO3-3/U14
Nashua, NH    03062-2698

Only my cat shares my opinions, and she's too heavy to care.

References:
- E-brake cables
  - From: Sachelle Babbar <sbabbar@iris.nyit.edu>

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