replaced rear pads rotors.drivers side rear caliper.have rubbing noise.and no parking brake.cleaned up both sides.all look.good.any help.99 outback.wagon.a(t maybe adjust .or broken cable.really do not need it

How can anyone be expected to figure out your issue, when too many specific details are missing to diagnose the problem .... not to mention capital letters, complete thoughts, or even one complete sentence?

using my phone.sorry.bud.i think all the details are there.99 outback.no parking brake.is that better.as far as cap.no way to make it smaller.if u do not understand my question please do not respond

been on this form for over 10 years.no one else has problems with my questions.

Parking brake is drum-in-rotor on that year. The shoes get rusty and the friction material falls off. Probably just need new park brake shoes.

 

Remove the rotors, if the shoes are Ok turn the adjuster wheel on the bottom to tighten them up.

thanks

How can anyone be expected to figure out your issue, when too many specific details are missing to diagnose the problem .... not to mention capital letters, complete thoughts, or even one complete sentence?

I'd expect a comment like that in a Honda Civic forum, NOT here. If you are having a bad day, being a jerk to someone asking for help isn't the way to "cure" YOUR issue. I'd expect more from a Canadian. Leave the BS at your home and don't bring it here.

 

 

 

Think Fairtax pretty much summed it up. You might have a broken or heavily rusted spring, the cable could be binding, etc. causing the shoes to hang. A big screw driver should allow you to adjust. Try and set it so it's not dragging or touching and wheel spins smoothly. I suggest doing both sides so the e-brake grabs evenly. It should be enough to slow the car (be careful ever pulling while moving as it can kick the rear out on wet roads if it locks up). You can also adjust how much handle pull (handle free play) is needed by adjusting the cable nuts right next to the e-brake handle). A new car for example you barely pull and the brakes are engaged. Should be able to get a dew clicks in the the stop before near full braking. If handle is almost at the top of it's stroke it won't be as effective.

 

Also, set the brakes in the rear, adjust the handle-side cable nuts if needed, then drive the car and use the e-brake about a dozen times at slow speeds on DRY pavement (like with no one else around on a side street; keep thumb pressing the button in and just pull handle- you don't want it locking it up) then go back and raise the rear and spin tires again by hand. You want to make sure it didn't bind or have other issues. If you smell a noxious odor just driving down the road (might need rear windows down and waiting at a light) and haven't been using the e-brake, that's a shoe dragging (pads make a noxious odor too if they drag as well). If the shoe is allowed to drag, it'll overheat along with hurting MPG.

Edited October 25, 201510 yr by Bushwick

@ Bushwick:

 

The OP had a right to present a problem in words that he saw fit.

 

The responder had a right to express his opinion on the clarity of the statement--harsh as it may have seemed.

 

You have a right to your opinion.  I have a right to mine.

 

But no one has a right to attack someone else with name-calling and put-downs.  And introducing nationality into the discussion is simply reprehensible.

 

This is the USMB.  Let's keep it classy.

I think he replaced the rotors.

 

one possible point of confusion, you adjust the star wheel UP to tighten the adjustment on both sides. seems weird but, there's even an arrow embossed onn the brake shield back there.