[DeTomaso] Parking brake adjustment

[Thomas Tornblom]

The original (Girling?) design is self adjustable.

The reason that doesn't work on our cars is that the disc is slightly 
oversize and the linkage (the rod with the spring wrapped around) from 
the outer to the inner pad had to be bent to clear the disc, and this 
makes the adjustment mechanism defunct. There is a little flat steel 
tounge that is supposed to grip nut "B" and tighten the pads, but at 
thye angle "B" is in after the modification, it just doesn't work any more.

Thomas


Roland Jaeckel skrev:
> 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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