Drum brakes vs. winter question

[roccit_53 at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (C Boyko)]

> Daun Yeagley wrote:
>> --- Brian Wagner <dagnamit@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>My dear sweet Cathy, it is the parking brake cable.
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>> I'll second this, it's likely the problem.
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>> Once you get it unstuck, tell her to refrain from using the
>> parking brake 'til spring.
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> And order a second cable; replace them as a set.

I really don't feel like doing both, I know, I'm lazy.
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> If you care to, (I know it's cold) think:
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> - Clean all the old bearing grease out, pack with new. Never mix.
> Consider the Redline Synth grease.
>
> - Get new drum shoes. (Or not, they are likely fine, drums, on the rear,
> last a long time.)
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> - Get a spring kit for the rear drums, one set for each side.

Well, this car better have decent meat left on the shoes, it's had two
sets of them on that side since I've owned it (she killed a wheel bearing
on that side too, and no, I didn't screw up the repacking, a
"professioanal" may have though.) It's been a brakes nighmare, well, no,
at least the lines (knock wood) have been good. See, it could always be
worse.
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> The reason I mentioned this was if you are going to pull the drum off to
> replace the parking brake cable you might as well do all the stuff in
> there you ever need to do.
>
> Much love from California. It's getting down to the mid 30s/ low 40s
> tonight, Fahrenheit. brrrrr.

Bah, same here now!!! But that would be +1.5C in my case. It swung that
far in a day. So brakes may be on the books, before it goes back down to
-19ish again. But there's all that "Mom at Christmas" stuff to do, baking,
decoroating, wrapping, construction, etc. ;)
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> TBerk
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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"