Just a few posts down I mentioned that I needed to replace the rear rotors on my '80 245 DL. Well, I believe I have found the cause of this problem.

I took off the hand parking brake cover off to loosen the adjustment bolt a bit, and I noticed that the cable on the passenger side does not seem to move at all... Actually it moves a very small amount, but not a whole lot.

It seems to be "stuck" in the up position (that is, the position when the lever is pulled up to apply the brake. The drivers side cable moves fine with no problems.

I think this explains another problem I've been having recently. Sometimes, after having parked the car with the parking brake, I'd get this fairly loud screeching noise from the back of the car when I went to pull away (after disengaging the parking brake of course.) I could get the noise to stop if I stopped the car, pulled up on the parking brake lever REALLY HIGH, and put it back down.

Let me ask you, does this rotor damage look like it was caused by a parking brake shoe? The damage is that "shiny" ring around the center of the rotor.



I've looked in the Hayes manual to try to learn how the hand brake system works, but it doesn't help much.

Now, what should I do about this? I don't want to put a new rotor on just to have the same thing happen again. Is a new cable in order, or is there just someway I can get some slack from the cable now?

Thank you all as usual.

Let's just hope it doesn't rain for a while...