james2747
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- Your Mercedes
- E270 CDI 2003
I was fitting new parking brake shoes yesterday and thought it would be a quick and easy job … BUT!!
Took the old shoes off and even managed to easily remove the little spring clips that hold shoes on.
The alloy pivot post (that has a metal clip over it) had quite a bit of white alloy corrosion, so I was giving it a good clean up and when doing this I needed to move the parking brake cable out of the way a few times but as I did this I must have pushed the inner cable inwards. I heard a few clicks from under the car. Now the cable is too short to clip back on to the parking brake pivot mechanism. I assume I must have activated some auto adjuster.
Is it possible to release the auto adjuster (and where is it?) or is there any easy trick to allow me to pull the inner cable back out again?
Took the old shoes off and even managed to easily remove the little spring clips that hold shoes on.
The alloy pivot post (that has a metal clip over it) had quite a bit of white alloy corrosion, so I was giving it a good clean up and when doing this I needed to move the parking brake cable out of the way a few times but as I did this I must have pushed the inner cable inwards. I heard a few clicks from under the car. Now the cable is too short to clip back on to the parking brake pivot mechanism. I assume I must have activated some auto adjuster.
Is it possible to release the auto adjuster (and where is it?) or is there any easy trick to allow me to pull the inner cable back out again?