RE: [help][brakes]urgent

[Greg Baxter <gbaxter@valleybrook.com>]

John - 

I swapped a 16v axle & brake package onto my 82 last fall. The e-brakes had seized, and I was able to confirm that by taking the rear wheels off, and beating the hell out of the levers that the e-brake cables hook up to. They didn't budge. Before proceeding to the beating the hell out of stage, you may want to loosen off your e-brake cables and ensure that they work, and use a pair of pliers to see if you can budge the levers on the calipers.

I even bought a Bentley for the 16v, but didn't notice anything about setting the prop valves or anything (but I may not have read as intently as I could have.) FWIW, I have the original prop valves in it, and noticed that the only time that the rears locked up prematurely for me was in a recent snow storm. We don't get that much snow, and I had to hammer the brakes pretty hard, so I'm not concerned.

Good Luck!


Greg
91 Jetta
82 1.8, rear-disc-brake-having-e-brake-working-later-body-style-sporting-Scirocco.

(Wow, look at that grammar checker go nuts!)


-----Original Message-----
From:	Brubaker, John [SMTP:JBrubaker@AMF.com]
Sent:	Tuesday, January 20, 1998 12:54 PM
Cc:	'scirocco-l@privateI.com'
Subject:	RE: [help][brakes]urgent

Shawn wrote:

<SNIP!>

[jb]  If so, how do you do this?  I know I didn't write this post, but I am 
having the exact same problems as this person except my brakes work fine. 
 I can't get that damn e-brake to work.  I don't know if my rear brakes are 
working (I will check), I don't think they are working very well.  I have 
tried to adjust the e-brake cabel before, both at the grip and at the 
caliber.  Is there anyway that I can verify whether or not my calibers have 
seized or not?

John
80 Scirocco S
85 GTI (with non functioning e-brake)


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