E-brake cable problems?

[warment]

Anyone ever have problems with their e-brake causing the rear brake pads to rub the rear discs while driving?

Yesterday I heard a squeal from my rear brakes while driving home from work. When I finally got home, I touched the left rear rotor with my finger and the rotor was really hot. I also noticed that the rear pads appeared to be resting on the rear rotors of both rear wheels. My e-brake handle was not engaged, but I am pretty sure that this is the problem.

Anyone had this problem? If so, what did you do to fix it?

Bill

 

[warment]

Just finished taking out my center console so I could remove some slack from my e-brake cable. The rear brake pads are still riding on the rear rotors. The rear left rotor has been scarred pretty badly.

Anyways, it doesn't appear that the e-brake cable is the culprit. Bad rear caliper with a sticking piston perhaps? After doing some reading, it looks like the culprit may be the rear brake control/proportioning valve. Anyone had similar problems? My car has less than 70,000 miles...

Bill

 

[asthmaticZeater]

its the sliders on the rear caliper mounting brackets. they like to freeze up, and do so ratehr easily. which doesnt allow the caliper to fully seperate back when you let off the brakes. ive replaced mine twice, and the latest is doing it again. but i think mine is caused alot by frequent trips to the track which includes llengthy burnouts and i dont have a line loc yet. (which i am getting before i replace it again )

 

[stangman]

i'm not sure what years it was for, but ford had a recall on that a while back. i had it fixed on my 98gt in 1999. so you might wanna give ford a call & ask

 

[JonJon]

i'm not sure what years it was for, but ford had a recall on that a while back. i had it fixed on my 98gt in 1999. so you might wanna give ford a call & ask

The recall was on parking brakes -not- working. My car used to roll sometimes when I parked on hills

I noticed this year that my parking brake would stick once in a while... First time in 4 winters that it did so but it normally would unstick after a minute or two of driving... Your problem sounds worse than that though...

 

[Mustangl3]

I heard that if you dont use it a lot when you do use it the brakes might get stuck. That happened to me once and it took a bunch of going and stopping and pulling the brakes lever to fix it.

 

[mity2]

mine did that after I wased my car at local carwash last night. e-brake hung up...


it was -12F last night. i guess cable was frozen...

 

[stangman]

The recall was on parking brakes -not- working. My car used to roll sometimes when I parked on hills

I noticed this year that my parking brake would stick once in a while... First time in 4 winters that it did so but it normally would unstick after a minute or two of driving... Your problem sounds worse than that though...

ahhh...... that's what it was, i couldn't remember exaclty. it was right there but i couldn't quite remember. thanks

 

[SteedaV8]

I have a 2000 Gt and i had a recall on the e-brake and brought it in and ford took care of it.

 

[warment]

its the sliders on the rear caliper mounting brackets. they like to freeze up, and do so ratehr easily. which doesnt allow the caliper to fully seperate back when you let off the brakes. ive replaced mine twice, and the latest is doing it again. but i think mine is caused alot by frequent trips to the track which includes llengthy burnouts and i dont have a line loc yet. (which i am getting before i replace it again )

Hey man...you were exactly right! One of the sliders on my left rear caliper was rusted fast. I tried to break it loose(with a hammer, then with a BIG hammer), but was not able to do so. I am going to buy a new bracket and sliders tomorrow.

I bought a new caliper, a new rotor, and new pads. I don't know how this happened, since the rubber boots on each slider looked like brand new. The other slider moved easily and had a lot of grease on it.

Bill

 

[asthmaticZeater]

just a bad design. like i said, mines happened 3 times in 3 years. i do alot of burnouts which probaly has something to do with it, but still. a lil uncalled for and i hope the line loc solves the problem.

glad you found your prob.

 

[warment]

just a bad design. like i said, mines happened 3 times in 3 years. i do alot of burnouts which probaly has something to do with it, but still. a lil uncalled for and i hope the line loc solves the problem.

glad you found your prob.

I agree with you...it must just be a bad design. I prefer 2 piston calipers(one caliper on each side) like the ones on my 911. They give you less deflection and overall give you a better "clamp."

I am going to check my right rear caliper as well before I drive the car again. I am paranoid the right one is stuck as well.

Bill