Re: double pumping

[jlandry@domain.elided (John A. Landry)]

In a brilliant stroke of genius, cookiedan@domain.elided (Daniel Nees) blurted
out:

>   I have did tighten the self adjusters (which work on my truck) before
>I did this. The main reason I did this was because I was concerned the
>cable would catch on something while wheeling, it was hanging so low. I
>didn't pull on the drum side of the cable, just the part of the cable
>from where it was cut on both sides and where the cable from the pedal
>cable attaches. I made sure I didn't engage the E-brake shoe when I was
>doing this. What this did do is make the E-brake shoe stay where it
>needs to stay, and not float in the drum with all the slack of the cable
>it had. I fact, I should have done this a while ago, because I actually
>had the e-brake cable fall off the e-brake shoe and hang down in the
>drum making an annoying sound. With the slack removed from the cables it
>will not be falling off again and it has stiffened my pedal up.

Dan,

That's a good idea to fix the sagging cable if it could potentially hang on
something.  But if you in fact did *not* partially apply the e-brake (by
taking the slack from the cable), then your improved pedal travel is in no
way connected to what you did to said e-brake cable.

All the e-brake cable does is mechanically pull a metal arm inside the
brake assembly that spreads the brake shoes apart against the drum.  If you
did not pull the cable and apply this arm, then how in the world would your
pedal travel or performance be affected?  You must have done something else
to improve your brakes, because there's no connection with the e-brake
cable... unless you unknowingly have the e-brake partially applied.

Regards,

John
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