one more problem with breaks

[gr8hunter1 at comcast.net (Jacob Hawes)]

Just going to pool answers.

I've found the group to be pretty helpful when my e-mail actually gets 
through the server but usually when it gets bounced it tells me it was 
bounced and I don't get the e-mail in my list folder. This time I got 
both those previous mails from the list server. BTW, the gist of the 
previous mails is "Done with breaks/suspension, but with new battery and 
cables I have no power", and "My fault it wouldn't start, but it turned 
on. The half tank of gas is 1.5 years old but it works. Here is a list 
of stuff I still need to do..."

My personal archives don't go back all that far due to a reformat and 
reinstalling everything. I don't remember anyone asking about their 
parking break not working in recent history either.

The shoes are making contact with the drum on the passenger side but it 
can still be turned by hand with the car on jacks. The driver side, with 
the cable adjustment at almost all the way and lever pulled as far as it 
should go will spin freely. The pedal stops both sides. The cable clip 
is clamped down on both sides but that wire coil thing won't keep the 
the rubber spacer in place at all.

My personal experience with breaks is almost none. I'm leaching off of 
my dads experience (off roading in a jeep with a bunch of friends) and 
the bently.

I had replaced the wheel cylinders while doing a break job and I have no 
idea when the last time they were bled is but the old fluid is pretty 
cloudy. Before we parked it the breaks were really mushy and the front 
pads really needed to be replaced. After bleeding the rear the pedal 
firmed up quite a bit. The wheel cylinders, cables, and springs in the 
breaks are all new. I have new shoes but the current ones have just 
about the same amount of meat as the new ones.

I'll get a pic tomorrow and stick it on my photobucket. I'm sure 
everything is put together right but I may be overlooking something simple.

-- 
	--Jacob Hawes
Cars:
	'80 Scirocco mk1 "Tuyer"
Sharp pointy things:
	18" HI Kobra "pillow knife"
	17.5" HI Ang Khola Villager "camp axe"
	~48" Custom XVII longsword. unnamed
My Photobucket:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v310/yoippari/