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Old 10-02-2008, 05:11 PM
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Brakes dragging after install of new Driver side Parking cable.

I have a 97 Sunfire GT. I recently did brakes all around and while in the process of doing this I discovered that the driver side Parking cable was broken and not functioning. I bought a new cable and installed it and adjusted the brakes as per normal. Every thing worked fine and there was no drag on the drums at initial setup. However after a few days of short trips I noticed that then driver side brake stays engaged a fair amount of drag and the passenger side very little drag. I re-adjusted the brake adjuster but even with it adjusted all the way back to full slack it still causes the drum to drag. Is there something else that I need to adjust?? I had to go back inside the drum and unhook the parking brake cable just so I could drive it home so I would not damage the drums or the wear the shoes prematurely. Any help is greatly appreciated. The only problem now is that I am back to where I was before and I have to use the full throw of the paking brake lever to engage the passenger parking brake. When I hade the other cable hooked up it would engage the parking brakes on the first click up on the parking lever.
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