Self Adjusting Trigger

Anyone know what is the self adjusting trigger for the rear brakes on an

01 Camry (rear drums of course)?

Somewhere I got it was when you use the parking brake lever?? But I don't remember where I got that idea. I remember on the older cars it used to be braking in reverse. Either of those right?

CP

Reply to
Charles Pisano
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Standard self adjusters add a click to the adjuster star wheel on each pedal application when you brake hard while moving in reverse. If there's too much travel, the arm moves far enough to catch a tooth on the wheel.

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Reply to
Bruce L. Bergman

If you have a disc and drum combination then your handbrake drums are not usually self adjust, only combined hand and foot brake drums usually have self adjustment.

Self adjusting drums require that the cable be correctly adjusted first (if in doubt allow plenty of slack), then apply the footbrake hard, no need for any vehicle movement, each pedal application allows the adjuster to advance one notch, but ONLY if there is more than a small amount of excess travel of the brake shoe.

mrcheerful

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mrcheerful

If you have drum rears, than every time you, uh, er, let *down* on the parking brake the adjuster turns (I think...it's either that or up, I just can't remrmber!)

OH! Yeah! Using the parking brake will adjust the rear drums!

Reply to
Hachiroku

not on the cars I work on, the normal footbrake adjusts the brakes, not the parking brake, after all some people never use the parking brake, but they always use the footbrake.

mrcheerful

Reply to
mrcheerful

I don't know if it applies to your Camry, but the Haynes manual for my

97 Tacoma said to aply the brakes sever times while driving in reverse to actuate the adjustor. Don't know it that really works, but it seems harmless enough to try.

On a semi-related note: why do they even make drum brakes anymore?

Reply to
Sean Elkins

the selfadjuster is on the parking brake. sometimes the parking brake gets stuck if its never used and you can use wd40 on the cables to get it free. I work for TMMK and we build the Camry.

Reply to
Rbobn44

Re: Self Adjusting Trigger Group: alt.autos.toyota Date: Fri, Dec 30, 2005, 7:44pm From: snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (Rbobn44) the selfadjuster is on the parking brake. sometimes the parking brake gets stuck if its never used and you can use wd40 on the cables to get it free. I work for TMMK and we build the Camry.

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Thanks. I finally looked at my repair manual (too lazy b4 I guess) and it agrees with you. I use the hand brake all the time and it does't seem to help. So, what's it like to build toyota's for a living?

CP

Reply to
Charles Pisano

its a good job the money is great but i think they need to go back to mangers from japan

Reply to
Rbobn44

I read in the WSJ a while back that the managers from Japan didn't want their families to come with them for fear they would become 'Americanized'. Apparently they themselves would rather forgo that process as well?

Would their absence explain the rise in quality complaints I've been seeing in 'some' models?

CP

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Charles Pisano

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