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Fwd: Re: 16v Parking Brake [was: RE: Fair price?]



It can also be stretched cables which is what happened to me, after I
replaced the calipers thinking they were frozen.


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It can, of course, also just be frozen cables or broken cables. There are lots
of things that could be wrong. Check it out, good luck, etc...
    -Josiah
    '84 GTI (away for the winter)
    '86 Scirocco 8v (buy me!)
    '87 QSW (daily driver)
    http://www.gsinet.net/~josiah

Riley McDowall wrote:

> At 6:37 pm -0600 22/11/98, Neal Tovsen wrote:
> >How do you recommend fixing (or attempting to fix) a frozen parking brake?
> >Mine would appear to be in this state, and it's something I've been meaning
> >to get to for some time.
> >
> >Neal
>
> I un-seized one of my calipers by tapping on the e-brake linkage.  On my
> caliper, it sprung back into place (the caliper was seized "closed")
> immediately.  But that's not really fixing the problem...once a caliper
> seizes once, you can count on it doing it again sooner or later.  You can
> get rebuild kits but I'm not sure if they address the problem of a sticking
> e-brake mechanism or not.  HTH!
>
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