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Check your parking brake, may be preventing reverse. (separated pads/shoes) 700 1988

posted by  FitzFitzgerald on  Wed Apr 7 15:45 CST 2004
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Before swapping rear ends, I would first remove the rear rotors and check that you don't have a parking brake that's malfunctioning. If one of the parking brake pads seperated from a parking brake shoe, it could bind up in the opposing pad (there's two in the drum of each rear rotor) and lock the wheel under some circumstances. Also check that the shoes are functioning properly, not dragging, and all the actuating hardware is properly adjusted.

I recently ran into this problem on a friend's '90 240 where cheap parking brakes shoes were used and one of them delaminated. For awhile, the car could drive in reverse fine, but no forward motion. A few days later it couldn't move at all. The seperated pad had finally lodged itself into the opposite pad in such a way to prevent it from moving.

God bless,
Fitz Fitzgerald.
--
'87 Blue 245, NA 236K






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