'99 Bravada Emergency Brake Adjustment - Discs

[BSarte]

Hi,

I just bought a very nice '99 Olds Bravada for my daughter and she took it through inspection here in NJ and it failed because they said that the emergencey brake would not hold the vehicle from moving.

Just before I bought the vehicle for her, the previous owner had all new brake pads & rotors installed. I am not new to doing brakes, but don't have any manual on this vehicle and am trying to figure out if the emergency brake problem has anything to do with a separate adjustment on the rear pads or whether Olds put small drum style shoes inside the rear brales like they used to do on Corvettes ('68-'82's)? If they did than that should be a easy adjustment.

Anybody have any exposure with a '99 Bravada rear disc brake emergency brake adjustment?

Let me know and thanks.

Bruce

[maxwedge]

Parking brake on these trucks are internal shoes inside the rear rotors and have been problematic, there is an updated shoe and kit to correct this, no external adjustment, have the rear rotors removed to inspect the internal parking brake mechanism.

[ericn1300]

one of the problems with the advent and popularity of the automatic transmission has been the decline in use of the parking brake. the parking brake, like most systems, needs to be "exercised" occasionaly to remain functional.

on one of my old fix or repair daily vehicles (aka ford) i had a simular problem that the mechanic showed me a quick fix for. he accelerated to about 10 mph in the parking lot and slammed on the parking brake a few times. problem solved. don't know if it works with disc brakes, but worth a try.