Parking Brakes

DESCRIPTION







All vehicles are equipped with a center mounted, hand operated parking brake lever. This lever is an auto-adjust type.
On vehicles with rear drum brakes, the rear wheel service brakes act as the vehicle's parking brakes.









The parking brakes on vehicles equipped with rear disc brakes consist of a small duo-servo brake assembly mounted to the disc brake caliper adapter. The hat (center) section of the rear rotor serves as the braking surface (drum) for the parking brakes.
The parking brake lever has a short output cable that connects the lever to the rear cables. The parking brake lever output cable is not replaceable as a separate component of the parking brake lever.

OPERATION
The parking brake lever is an auto-adjust type which continuously applies minimal tension to the parking brake cables to keep them in adjustment at all times. Due to this feature, the park brake cable system does not require adjustment. Proper parking brake system adjustment is obtained by proper rear drum brake shoe adjustment.
The rear drum brake shoes, when acting as parking brakes, are mechanically operated using an internal actuating lever and strut which is connected to a flexible steel cable. There is an individual park brake cable for each rear wheel, which are joined using a park cable equalizer before terminating at the floor mounted, hand operated park brake lever.
The parking brakes on vehicles equipped with rear disc brakes consist of a small duo-servo brake assembly mounted to the disc brake caliper adapter which expands its shoes outward against the hat (center) section of the disc brake rotor when applied. This parking brake application uses the same operating cable configuration as the drum brake equipped vehicles, but different cables.