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parking brake Q

Subject: parking brake Q
From: gforbess at attglobal.net (Gordon Forbess)
Date: Sun Sep 17 10:25:44 2006
In-reply-to: <c3b793020609170756g49d91478lf030db05239d0a41@mail.gmail.com>
References: <c3b793020609170756g49d91478lf030db05239d0a41@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:56:44 -0400, "Greg Pallett"
<greg.rocco@gmail.com> wrote:

>Are my parking brakes about to fail catastrophically because of the unequal
>cable length?

Probably not, but at a certain point the cables stretch to the point
they just aren't effective and have an almost elastic quality.  The
cure (which I just did a couple of weeks ago) is new cables, which
will restore full function.

Gordon
75 Mk I/Drake 1.9
http://pws.prserv.net/gforbess/scirocco/scirocco.htm

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