[DeTomaso] Parking brake adjustment

[John Taphorn]

Charlie

After viewing the pic, I saw the same opportunity as Roland.  I recommend 
disassembly and repacking with grease your lower a arm pivot shafts.

JT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roland Jaeckel" <Jaeckel-Partner-GMBH at t-online.de>
To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 2:40 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Parking brake adjustment


> Charlie,
> First loose the nut A, that the arm (whitch looks corroded),
> where the cable is attached goes all way back.
> Then adjust nut B so fare, that you have  a gap of appr.
> 0,5 mm on each pad to the disc. Then you can tighten
> the cable again. New pads come from a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow II.
> You should be more worried on the rust that drains out of the
> cap of the lower spindle of your car.
> A rusted up spindle in your lower upright / a-arm will break
> the a-arm. Time for a greaseable spindle kit from Pantera East.
>
> Roland Jaeckel
> DeTomaso Parts Center Europe
> www.detomaso.de
>
> Hi all,
>
> How do you adjust the parking brake on a late-model Pantera? I ask
> late-model because Thomas Gunnarsson thinks it may be different than an
> early model. And looking in the Shop Manual, I see the ever-helpful "The
> parking brake is self-adjusting, so you shouldn't have to adjust it 
> ever..."
> or something like that.
>
> Please see the photo at
> http://members.aol.com/PanteraGT5S1985/Misc/parkingbrake
>
> You can see the gap between the brake pad and the rotor.
>
> The parking brake was working just fine last week, I took off for a little
> 10-day drive, and partway through it stopped working. I did bottom out on 
> a
> speed bump pretty hard, which may or may not be related. There is 
> absolutely
> zero braking action when pulling on the lever. Looking underneath the car,
> the mechanism is working fine - everything moves like it should (I think)
> when pulling on the lever but there is a large gap between the pad and the
> rotor.
>
> I tried adjusting nut "A", which moves the whole mechanism to the left,
> which closes the pads a little. But I've almost adjusted all the way to 
> the
> end and still am far from having braking action.
>
> Nut "B" is another option, but it doesn't look like it is something I'm
> supposed to move, since I can't get a wrench on it. It isn't 
> finger-tight -
> I can't move it by hand and am nervous about clamping down on it.
>
> Hence the call for help.
>
> "Help!"
>
> Thanks!
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