Rear Disc E-brake I have made a discovery!!!!!!

[michael.leach at lmco.com (Leach, Michael)]

I have come to realization that my car is cursed and does not want the
inspection sticker.  In one way or another I have tried all of these things
you have described...but I will try just driving the car for a while to see
if that helps (unfortunately I autocrossed Sunday and it did not seem to
help!!) ....and I will do the brake pedal e-brake thing again.....one
problem is that until I get the sticker I am not legal to drive....it will
not stop me but I cant afford tickets!!!...good thing most of my Cincy
driving will be out of state.
 
I really appreciate the help 
 
Michael Leach
MH-60R Integration and Test
Lockheed Martin Federal Systems
Owego, NY 13827
607-751-7542
FAX 751-6198
michael.leach@lmco.com <mailto:michael.leach@lmco.com> 
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Wagner [mailto:brian_wagner@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 4:32 PM
To: Allyn; Leach, Michael; 'ATS - Patrick Bureau'; 'Cathy Boyko';
scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: Rear Disc E-brake I have made a discovery!!!!!!


Adjusting the rear on a 16v is easy and shouldn't take anytime to adjust.
 
Step 1 - Change Pads and rotors
Step 2 - Depress the brake pedal
Step 3 - Pull the ebrake up slowly while the pedal is depressed, you will
feel the pedal fall a little.
Step 4 - repeat step 3 5 times and then test ebrake.
 
I is simple and works, well at least it did on mine.

Allyn <amalventano@sc.rr.com> wrote:

> I have a theory that I would like to get some discussion on ....

mmm, theory...

> E-brakes...
> anyone have any input on this?

the pistons are designed to auto-rotate clockwise, which will
auto-compensate for brake pad wear by picking up the slack in the e-brake
mechanism. this takes several brake cycles to accomplish, even for the
smallest auto-adjustment. if you go from new pads/new rotor to used
pads/used rotor, it will take a LONG TIME for the system to fix this on its
own (unless you turn the piston ccw during the swap). it can also take a
while for the ebrake to work after swapping to new stuff, if the piston was
screwed all the way in (possibly against its stop, causing the self-adjust
to not work at all, as its basically been 'tightened' and cant turn ccw on
its own).

data point: i did rear brakes/rotors last mon! th on the rieger. it took 2
days of daily driving for the ebrake to work again. it did work after the
initial test drive, but it was very weak (lever all the way up).

hth
Al


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