Drum brakes vs. winter question

[dagnamit at gmail.com (Brian Wagner)]

My dear sweet Cathy, it is the parking brake cable. They generally as they
get older trap some water and it freezes. Either try to lube the hell out of
the cables in the car(hard, if not impossible to do) or order replacements.
To replace them in warmth it is an hour job, in the cold 2.5 minimum.

BriAN

-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of C Boyko
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 7:21 AM
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Drum brakes vs. winter question


Okay, so it's finally winter here, -19C (1F). And the daughter comes hme
and announces that the cars "F*%$ed". As I anticipated, of course. It
would wait for the bitter weather. But turns out it's got a brake that's
sticking on. (Rear, PS, drum). Which I figure I should be able to deal
with.

So what are the likely candidates? Frozen/sticking cable?  What else? I
just want to make it as quick a fix as humanly possible. Just wanted to
know what the most likely issue is before I go out and pull it apart.
(Which may wait till it warms up a bit...)

Cathy
1999 TDI New Beetle
1987 2L 16V Scirocco
1979 1.8L 10:1 8V
"Deja moo- the feeling you've heard this bull before"

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