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Got around to installing the parking brake shoes today. Got them adjusted per the TM, which was a pita with the limited work space up in there. Man it's nice to have a good parking brake! Hadn't seen the truck I dont think since I last posted about the park brake lol. Took it out for a spin and...
Eh scratch that. Called Saturn and they dont have the liner kits anymore. They did have the spring I need, so I just ordered one and a e-brake shoe kit.
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I see Saturn has a E-Brake Relining Kit that has the liners and rivets. Do I need a special rivet tool for these or just any old brake rivet tool will do? If I could find the tool at a reasonable cost I may go that route. But for $30 more they have the shoes with liners.
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The other two springs are there and the pivots are smooth and easy to move by hand and showed signs of regular greasing when I greased the whole truck before Haspin this summer.
Thanks a lot guys for the great info, links and pics. I really appreciate it.
If you find the receipt of the place...
Hmmmm..... I see in the drawing that the spring shows to have a loop the bolt goes through. Here's a pic of the spring out of the truck. Both ends actually look like the wire was broke at some point or the manufacture process didn't leave a clean cut, prob the later. So guess I need to add a new...
So my parking brake hasn't been holding the truck on an incline for a while and I decided to adjust it today. I found the shoe liners are shot and I also found that the "outer shoe return spring" (?) is just leaning against the bracket that the adjusting bolt threads into. Also found that the...
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