Fw: '91 200Q hand brake sticking

["Music Research Corp." <mureco@telenet.net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Music Research Corp. <mureco@telenet.net>
To: Preston Brown <pbrown@econ.yale.edu>
Date: Sunday, April 05, 1998 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: '91 200Q hand brake sticking


>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Preston Brown <pbrown@econ.yale.edu>
>To: rlpplsky <rlpplsky@ix.netcom.com>
>Cc: quattro@coimbra.ans.net <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
>Date: Sunday, April 05, 1998 6:49 PM
>Subject: Re: '91 200Q hand brake sticking
>
>
>>On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, rlpplsky wrote:
>>
>>> The hand brake on my '91 200Q is not fully releasing.  I have noticed
for
>a
>>> few days that the lever has had 1" of play, but today after washing the
>car,
>>> there was much more play and the brakes are dragging severely.  I am
>afraid
>>> to drive the car for fear of wrecking the rear brakes, starting the car
>on
>>> fire, etc.
>>
>>Get under the car.  Find the mechanical part of the caliper that is
>>actuated with the handbrake cable.  Gently (but you'll have to use *some*
>>force) tap it with a hammer, and it will release.  Likely it's just bound
>>up and a little rusted, so it is sticking.  This solution is temporary
>>most likely, as if you use the handbrake again the problem will likely
>>re-occur.  Anyone know the DIY permanent solution?
>>
>>---
>> -Preston Brown
>>  preston.brown@yale.edu
>>
>    The obvious solution is:  New handbrake cables!  All kidding aside,
many
>years ago, the handbrake cables had a neat little grease fitting at about
>the half-way position on the outer casing.  There may be this style still
>available also, there seems to me I've seen somewhere where you could
>hook-up a fitting at one end of the casing and shoot a load of grease until
>it appeared at the other end.  Some mechanics may still have these.  You
>need to displace that rust that is binding up the inner cable.  In time,
the
>rust will freeze the whole inner workings.  I bet you have some road salt
>that started this whole nasty problem.
>
>    Wayne Scheer
>    mureco@ telenet. net
>
>