Hand Brake Stuck On?

[jcooke]

Hey guys,

I have had the car sitting for about two weeks while I did a guage install (very slow one at that). All done, went to go put some fuel in, put it in drive, and no moving for me. It feels as though the hard brake is stuck on as the car sags in the ass while trying to move. If I increase rpm will move with an unfriendly squeeeel. Naturally I moved about 2 inchs and decided best not to proceed. Now I did have the crossover off to splice into the blow off vavle line for the boost guage. I have checked all the hoses I played with but they all seem fine. I checked the brake fluid resovoir and it looks quite low. If theres not enough fluid does it lock the brakes on? I would have though it the opposite.

Any help would be much appreciated, I was going to fuel up tonight as I need to drop the car to Elite Auto tomorrow arvo for a service.

Am I missing something? A hose? check the hand brake cable??? I did have new hand brake shoes installed about 1.5 months ago and have done very little driving since but none the less the hand brake wasn't stuck on then.

thanks

Josh

P.S. Yes the hand brake is off.

[Full Monty]

certainly sounds like the handbrake is jammed, check the insides of the dust shields where the cables go into the rear hubs, give this a wiggle, the actuator arm could be seized.

If this is the case, get a mechanic to service the Handbrake assembly.

worst design ever, been giving me grief for 2 months now 5 trips to ford!

[our06t]

just a thought have you tried putting in reverse so if that unlocks it

[jcooke]

will go take a squiz now. cant really get to mechanic though if the wheels are locked? I assume giving it a boot to free it up will be a bad idea?

[Full Monty]

yes, I wouldnt try accelerating hard with it on, you will brake an engine mount or worse.

try gently in reverse,but I suggest trying as I said in previous post, I'd say the lever is seized or something, have a fiddle around the back of the dust shields where the cable goes through, inspect the cable underneath the body, particularly around the equaliser plate, see if the seizure is before the divider / equaliser plate or after (pull handle up, hop under and see if the cable has pulled tight and pulled the plate.

if it has, your problem lies further back in the hubs

[jcooke]

partial update, it is the hand brake shoes stuck on. have the rear right wheel off, hand brake cable is loose, but the hand brake shoes are stuck hand up against the rotor on the inside. is there any secret to getting this off? or brute force required with a worse case of replacing the shoes again??

[jcooke]

is there a way to manually release the hand brake shoes? the brake disc is completely release apart from the bottom....

[jcooke]

Sooooo, disc is still stuck on. The hand brake shoes are stuck solid, solid to the point that attempting to leaver off the disk is actually pulling the brake shoe lining out. One other thing I did notice was there was quite a few raised edges on the front edges of the disc, suggesting the mob who did the hand brake shoes (hbs) had a lot of dramas getting it off, solving it with metal hammer. Is this going to be a case of oxy'ing the disc in half or maybe cutting the studs?

Spoke to the boys where I was going to get a service, agreed that there aren't many options.

Can I spray CRC or WD40 sorta stuff or is this a bad idea? Either way I am going to have to replace the disc after looking at what the last mob did.

Any help would be much appreciated. Now where's the oxy bottles......

[Guest EGOXRT]

Dude get a hammer and hit the outside of the disc (drum) that houses the linings. Do this around the entire disc until they free up..

[jcooke]

cheers mate, have done that too, im thinking the only way to get this $#@%$ off is to bash it off like you say. Its the most stuck hbs I have ever seen.