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e-brake + 40 miles = squishy brakes...

Hi been gone a while, but came here first for some help... Saturday I meet up with my club to go wheeling, while we were waiting my 3 yr old was sitting in the Jeep so I put on the e-brake. When we left I released it and took off fine. Jumped immediately on the expressway and drove 40 miles. When we went to get off the exit my brake pedal went to the floor and almost scared the **** out of me, then it pumped up and I had some brakes. Pulled into a gas station and found that the e-brake cable had frozen up and the rear brakes had been dragging. We released the brakes by unhooking the cables from the equalizer. Also took off the drivers side drum and the pads still had some life left. Now the pedal is real squishy and it seems that the rear brakes aren't working. Someone said I may have just built up some air in the lines from them over-heating. The fluid is fine so I have not popped a cylinder. I am going to dig into them tonight.

Any thoughts?

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aGraham
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Your rear brakes are now way out of adjustment.

You can go back and forward hitting the brakes hard each time and if the adjusters are still working, they likely will adjust back up or better you open up the rubber grommet in the rear of the brake plate and manually adjust up the star wheel.

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

aGraham wrote:

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Mike Romain

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aGraham

If they are too far out of adjustment they might not adjust automatically or the cables could have fallen off from being too loose.

Mike

aGraham wrote:

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Mike Romain

Your shoes are likely toast and will need replacing. If they seem ok, try sanding the glaze off. Best to just replace them tho - they're cheap. Make sure the star wheels are free turning and not worn out.

John Davies

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'96 Lexus LX450 '00 Audi A4 1.8T quattro Spokane WA USA

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John Davies

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L.W.(ßill)

If they wont adjust, you might as well get new shoes, spring kits, and adjuster kits on the way home. You can always return them if not needed. I gave up fighting old adjusters, wire wheeling and greasing them and they still jam in 6 months.

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Paul Calman

Well it wasn't that bad we removed the drums cleaned out the mud that was in there, adjusted them, and sanded the pads a little and now they are better than they were before. I think that if maybe I had tried backing up a bit more to get them to self-adjust before hitting the mud they would have worked themselves out. Was actually amazing seeing that the star wheels were free even though I had not touched them in the 1.5 years I have owned the Jeep.

Still have to replace the cable but atleast that is it.

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aGraham

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