adjusting the parking brake on my 2000 s-10 4×4

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>sounds to me like the dealer definition of "normal", not most people’s >definition… >i know logic shouldn’t enter into it, but you would think that a >parking brake would sort of hold the truck when it was parked, right??

Yeah, but most people are used to parking brakes that hold against the engine and the new design with the seperate shoe doesn’t do that as well as the old drum brake type.  It’ll hold when the truck is in neutral against gravity dragging the truck downhill, but not against all those pony’s under the hood. I think the main reason they don’t seem to hold as well is the size of the shoes versus the size of the old style drum brakes they used to use. At least they didn’t use those bastard calipers with the parking brake built in to the disc part of the brake…what a PITA it was to service those! — Old Crow ASE Master Tech   Chevy Master Tech ‘82 FLTC   ‘Pearl’ ‘84 S-10 4×4  350k miles and still going

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sounds to me like the dealer definition of "normal", not most people’s definition… i know logic shouldn’t enter into it, but you would think that a parking brake would sort of hold the truck when it was parked, right?? – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Ya mine has been shit since the day I got it(2000 also) seems it is called a >low effort parking brake, which to me means low effort = no worky. The >dealer tried to fix it twice with no results, they replaced cables and >adjusted but it has never worked well. Supposedly the brake pedal should be >able to go right to the floor, this is normal. > the subject says it all… I’d like to know how to adjust the parking >brake > on my 2000 s-10 4×4, it has 4 wheel disk brakes, I’ll be picking up a >repair > manual shortly, I’ve got quite a bit of experience fixing s-10s but all of > my previous s-10s were rear drum, and simply backing up and pumping the > breaks were sufficient enough to adjust them up.  but to no avail my >parking > brake fails to hold… thanks ahead of time for your input… ~D > — > 03 Wrangler TJ se 4WD > 00 Chevy S-10 4WD > 95 Virago XV750 > If you really want to e-mail me direct… > please make the subject line say > "this is not spam" or else, I won’t get it… > don’t send me spam under the guise of not being spam, unless you want > reported… and is loosing your IP, or e-mail address worth it?  ~dave

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the subject says it all… I’d like to know how to adjust the parking brake on my 2000 s-10 4×4, it has 4 wheel disk brakes, I’ll be picking up a repair manual shortly, I’ve got quite a bit of experience fixing s-10s but all of my previous s-10s were rear drum, and simply backing up and pumping the breaks were sufficient enough to adjust them up.  but to no avail my parking brake fails to hold… thanks ahead of time for your input… ~D — 03 Wrangler TJ se 4WD 00 Chevy S-10 4WD 95 Virago XV750 If you really want to e-mail me direct… please make the subject line say "this is not spam" or else, I won’t get it… don’t send me spam under the guise of not being spam, unless you want reported… and is loosing your IP, or e-mail address worth it?  ~dave

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Ya mine has been shit since the day I got it(2000 also) seems it is called a low effort parking brake, which to me means low effort = no worky. The dealer tried to fix it twice with no results, they replaced cables and adjusted but it has never worked well. Supposedly the brake pedal should be able to go right to the floor, this is normal.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> the subject says it all… I’d like to know how to adjust the parking brake > on my 2000 s-10 4×4, it has 4 wheel disk brakes, I’ll be picking up a repair > manual shortly, I’ve got quite a bit of experience fixing s-10s but all of > my previous s-10s were rear drum, and simply backing up and pumping the > breaks were sufficient enough to adjust them up.  but to no avail my parking > brake fails to hold… thanks ahead of time for your input… ~D > — > 03 Wrangler TJ se 4WD > 00 Chevy S-10 4WD > 95 Virago XV750 > If you really want to e-mail me direct… > please make the subject line say > "this is not spam" or else, I won’t get it… > don’t send me spam under the guise of not being spam, unless you want > reported… and is loosing your IP, or e-mail address worth it?  ~dave

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