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Morris

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I just discovered that me rear left brake is dragging. Should I ease her home, or get a tow?

Answer needed before I finish my margarita!
 
Assuming drum, can you release it a bit by backing off the adjuster? Is the E-brake cable nice and loose?
 
If the e-brake cable is rusty, and hung up a bit, moving the housing around a bunch will often release the tension.

Also, try backing up and hitting the foot brake.
Shoe movement will sometimes kick a sticking e-brake off.
I had a car that was like that once.

At the time, finding a one-piece rear e-brake cable for a 2WD 1949 Willys Wagon was not an option.
 
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At the time, finding a one-piece rear e-brake cable for a 2WD 1949 Willys Wagon was not an option.
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That's cause you didn't know Raymond Cusimano !!!!! ( or he was dead already.)


Morris, beating on the back plate w/ a hammer works too fer hung up e brakes and such.
 
This was 30+ years ago.
4WD parts all over, but not 2WD.
Finally put a Mustang 8" in the back with the cables it came with and other than some cable slack adjusters, works fine.
 
Ebrake is perfect. I think it's a busted return spring.

I don't think I can get to the adjuster in the busy restaurant parking lot.

Tow it?
 
Is was good and alive then and had ANYTHING hard to find IN STOCK. Probably had a few new and used. He had several whole wagons around and a really nice fully restored Jeepster for his wife. He was a great guy, you would have liked him. He passed away in '88.


He once ran a guy off for asking him if he had points and plugs for a Blazer.

"Get the hlll out of here!!! Go to NAPA !!!! We only have hard to find stuff !!!!"

He was quite a charater.
 
Morris said:
Ebrake is perfect. I think it's a busted return spring.

I don't think I can get to the adjuster in the busy restaurant parking lot.

Tow it?
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Sounds like it, if you think it's doing damage to drive it.

Plus - Margharita's? Yeah - tow it. :wink:
 
Unless you want to jack it up, pull the wheel and drum right there in the parking lot, then hike to someplace that might have a spring, if you're concerned, tow it.
 
Oh, and since you won't be driving, have another couple of Margaritas while waiting for the truck.
 
I would have one more and then drive that sucker :wink:
yeah is sounds like a stuck E-brake. Let it cool good and it might free up. Me, I would pull it there in the parking lot. You still got to fix it there or at home. Still, I am not normal, so do what you think best
 
should a towed it :cryin:
 
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