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Jeep Wrangler YJ
YJ General Discussion
Can the cable holding the parking brake lever up get loose this quickly?
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<blockquote data-quote="machoheadgames" data-source="post: 436226" data-attributes="member: 18789"><p>I'd dig through the factory service manual to confirm you installed them step by step with the factory procedure. If that arm is not touching, they will not self adjust and since the drums are a service brake, driving around will wear them down and effectively kill the parking brake. This will be a constant problem unless you can get the self adjusting to start working again.</p><p></p><p>I would not adjust the parking brake cable, because eventually you'll wear the shoes down again, you'll adjust the parking brake cable again, rinse and repeat, until eventually you run out of thread on the cable adjuster. At that point you're up a creek, and back to square one but with a parking brake you can no longer fix with the cable. </p><p></p><p>Personally I had horrible luck with the drums. I could not get them to self adjust and I myself ran into the problem with adjusting the cable adjuster. Eventually I went to disc brakes that have a much more consistent, dedicated parking brake.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="machoheadgames, post: 436226, member: 18789"] I'd dig through the factory service manual to confirm you installed them step by step with the factory procedure. If that arm is not touching, they will not self adjust and since the drums are a service brake, driving around will wear them down and effectively kill the parking brake. This will be a constant problem unless you can get the self adjusting to start working again. I would not adjust the parking brake cable, because eventually you'll wear the shoes down again, you'll adjust the parking brake cable again, rinse and repeat, until eventually you run out of thread on the cable adjuster. At that point you're up a creek, and back to square one but with a parking brake you can no longer fix with the cable. Personally I had horrible luck with the drums. I could not get them to self adjust and I myself ran into the problem with adjusting the cable adjuster. Eventually I went to disc brakes that have a much more consistent, dedicated parking brake. [/QUOTE]
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Can the cable holding the parking brake lever up get loose this quickly?
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