Parking Brakes

DESCRIPTION







All vehicles are equipped with a center console mounted hand operated parking brake lever. This lever is an auto-adjust type.
There is an individual park brake cable for each rear wheel, which are joined using a park brake cable equalizer before terminating at the floor mounted, hand operated park brake lever.







The parking brake located at each rear wheel consists of a small duo-servo brake assembly mounted to the disc brake caliper adapter.







The hat (center) section of the rear rotor (drum-in-hat style) serves as the braking surface (drum) for the parking brakes.

OPERATION
When the parking brake lever is applied, the cables are pulled, thus actuating the parking brake shoes. The shoes expand outward against the drum section of the rear disc brake rotor.

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 manual adjustment. Proper parking brake system adjustment is obtained by proper drum-in-hat brake shoe adjustment.