Re: Parking brake adjusting

["Mr. Daniel P. Grady" <dgrady@mail2.nai.net>]

Yank the perking brake a bunch of times, this should adjust the arms. It's
like hitting the brakes in while rolling in reverse with a drum brake
system. Hope this helps.
-Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: scott miller <macatawa@hotmail.com>
To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 9:47 PM
Subject: Parking brake adjusting


>I've just put new parking brake cables on my '90 200tqw.  The levers on
>the new calipers are moving as they should, but not pulling the new pads
>against the new rotors as I had hoped.  I left the cable adjustment
>alone.  My Bentley mentions "self adjusting brakes" repeatedly, what's
>the mechanism?  Can the self adjusting be hastened somehow?  What'd I
>miss?
>
>Thanks
>
>Scott
>
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