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Old 12-12-2012, 10:05 PM
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Hi everyone, does anyone else have a problem with e brake. My 01 camaro ss when i pull handle you hear a pop and the handle goes loose . Please help !
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Classic issue.

This is caused by someone changing the rear rotors and not adjusting the e-brake accordingly to the bore of the new rotor.

To fix it, you need to take off the brakes, take off the rotors and go through the adjusting procedure for both sides of the car.
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Thank you I'll try that.
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Originally Posted by wssix99
Classic issue.

This is caused by someone changing the rear rotors and not adjusting the e-brake accordingly to the bore of the new rotor.

To fix it, you need to take off the brakes, take off the rotors and go through the adjusting procedure for both sides of the car.
Not thinking that's what he was talking about. It happens on mine occasionally. one of the pawls in the handle will either slip off the gear-ring or it pops off and BANG, handle goes all the way up. Put the handle back down and it resets it. if you move the outer pawl (on the bottom?) you can pull then handle up all the way without actuating the EBrake. Kid of a third adjustment.

But OP, if you take the console off and spray both of the gear rings with some WD40 and spray the pawls, that should help, but there's no real definitive fix.



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