Self Adjusting Trigger

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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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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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