Re: '87505 n9te sedan rear brakes drag

presslaff/bruce (yaleav@autobahn.mb.ca)
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:42:45 -0600

Sounds like your emergency cables have rusted. Get new ones
or take the old ones out free them up with WD40
till they slide freely then smear the internals with grease. If
the plastic sheathing is shot cut it off
tape them or put them inside pieces of garden hose to protect
them from the elements. If it is not the cables then there is something
binding inside the rear calipers. The emergency mechanically pushes the
rear pads against the rotors sometimes the return mechanism gets
rusted.

Bob Bruce

>Hi
>
>Need some help with this problem affecting the rear brakes on
>my '87 505, N9TE, sedan.
>The brakes won't let go immediately upon release of the hand brake lever!
>I have to drive up to 1 mile and/or pump the hand lever to get the rear
>brakes to finally release.
>The pads and callipers were replaced @ 12,000 miles ago.
>Put the car is on the lift and my technician noticed that foot
>braking also has drag, but not as much as with the hand lever.
>Since the hand lever is mechanical, and foot brake is hydrolic, what
>component is common to both mechanisms so as to cause this drag?
>OR
>do I have two seperate problems with similar symptoms.
>
>All help, advice, and anecdotes appeciated.
>
>
>Thad Dabrowski
>'87 505 N9TE sedan
>'85 505 XN6 wagon
>
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