On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 01:25:10 -0400, Abeness <news@nada.x> wrote:

>SoCalMike wrote:
>> i went into the console, but thats when i found the "saddle yoke"
>> thingie was moving wayyyy too off centered.
>
>Just got the car back from the body shop... pulled the ashtray to look
>at the saddle yoke and found that it is way off balance--and this with
>disc brakes in the rear. I can't take off the wheels just yet
>(logistical issues), and I can't tell from the shop manual whether
>there's a slack adjustment at the calipers by which I might balance the
>cables individually--nothing like this is mentioned, though it does
>mention making sure the p-brake arm contacts the brake caliper pin. If
>it isn't, I could see this being the problem.
>
>If there isn't a slack adjustment and if the pads are thick on both
>sides, what should I be looking for to balance that yoke?

Pad thickness doesn't matter - there's a self-adjusting screw inside each
caliper piston for handbrake adjustment, which is why you need to screw the
pistons back into the caliper when replacing pads. If your cables don't
match in length, giving a widlly unbalanced equaliser bar (yoke ?) the
suspects would be: a hang up at the clevis pin where the cable attaches to
the lever on the caliper, a bad caliper piston which is not self-adjusting
or a bad outer cable sheath stop where it enters the body. BTW I've never
seen an equaliser bar which is 100% balanced - one cable is always longer
than the other.

Rgds, George Macdonald

"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??