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Old 04-03-2010, 08:54 AM
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Parking brake not engaging.

I searched and searched before making this thread but none of the solutions from other threads have helped.

Like the title says my parking brake won't engage. It was working fine a few months ago then all of a sudden it stopped engaging. I don't have any broken cables as I pull the parking brake handle all the cables tighten up.

It's like the brake pads aren't being pushed out far enough. I tightened bell crank nut up by the T-case and that didn't tight anything up either.

I also noticed the adjustment lever falling off of the adjuster when I pull the parking brake handle to far. So I'm not sure if that has to do with anything. Also the lever hardly sits on the adjuster wheel.

http://www.ncttora.com/fsm/1993/brakesystem/11-4wd.pdf


My lack of mechanical knowledge has stumped me.

Does anyone have any ideas?
Old 04-03-2010, 09:23 AM
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Have you tried adjusting the rear brakes? On the back of the drums there is a small oval slot covered by a plug in which you can use a flathead screwdriver to turn the little wheel that adjusts your rear brakes.

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Old 04-03-2010, 10:22 AM
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yes try adjusting the back breaks if that dont work depending on your funds martin crawler offers a handy dandy e brake coversion that goes on your driveshaft and is better plus you can do away with all those lil brackets and cables that r easy to damage in the big mud
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