using e-brake while driving wear anything down?

[jt1583]

its just connected to the rear brakes, so does using this occasionally while driving wear anything down?

 

[DevilSperm]

your brakes?

 

[speedytalon]

yes your brakes.....

 

[TurBoGs-T]

Originally posted by speedytalon
yes your brakes.....

 

[RiceKiller_TSi]

Uhhh... Im gonna say rear brakes.
Im also gonna say rear rotors due to the excess heat being generated causing them to warp.

 

[philipkrotch]

its a long shot...but probably your rear brakes. .

 

[BGRIPTP]

for what? You will break your cables if you use it too hard while moving, also the way an E-brake is setup, you can wear away some of the other things in the brakes.

 

[Defiant]

Originally posted by jt1583
its just connected to the rear brakes, so does using this occasionally while driving wear anything down?

4-wheel disc DSMs use separate shoes inside a drum on the rear brakes, part of the rear disc hat. If you try using the PARKING brake on an AWD, the viscous couplers try to brake all four wheels. Which is about as likely to break as brake.

 

[RiceKiller_TSi]

Originally posted by Defiant
4-wheel disc DSMs use separate shoes inside a drum on the rear brakes, part of the rear disc hat.

What do you mean? Four wheel disc DSM's dont have drums... they have 4 discs. Four wheel disc brakes doesnt utilize drums at all.

 

[doodie]

Originally posted by RiceKiller_TSi
What do you mean? Four wheel disc DSM's dont have drums... they have 4 discs. Four wheel disc brakes doesnt utilize drums at all.

Um... Dude you gotta look a little closer. The rear brakes are Disc brakes, but in the middle you'll see a drum also. Inside that drum is your parking brakes.

 

[ITSME4G63]

I think you just answered your own ####ing queation mayte, would using the Ebrake (rear brakes) mess up anything, um duh THE BRAKES.

 

[Ðawg]

Originally posted by doodie
Um... Dude you gotta look a little closer. The rear brakes are Disc brakes, but in the middle you'll see a drum also. Inside that drum is your parking brakes.

I didn't know that, thank you very much for that!

--Scott

 

[RiceKiller_TSi]

A drum! Are you kidding me! I guess I will go home and check my Haynes and Chiltons books for sure now because the last time I changed my rear pads I had calipers on there, not drums. You sure this applies for 1g??

 

[doodie]

Originally posted by RiceKiller_TSi
A drum! Are you kidding me! I guess I will go home and check my Haynes and Chiltons books for sure now because the last time I changed my rear pads I had calipers on there, not drums.

I'm not saying that your wrong. There are disc and calipers in the rear but in the center, theres a drum there.

 

[RiceKiller_TSi]

Ok, well since this is fuzzy on me I'll look into it.

 

[DevilSperm]

Originally posted by ITSME4G63
I think you just answered your own ####ing queation mayte, would using the Ebrake (rear brakes) mess up anything, um duh THE BRAKES.

hey ease up on him a bit, he asked to get an answer, not to get flamed

 

[TurBoGs-T]

I also didn't know that the hump in the back were drum brakes. Good to know.

 

[ITSME4G63]

Originally posted by DevilSperm
hey ease up on him a bit, he asked to get an answer, not to get flamed

shoulda put the after my response

 

[DevilSperm]

Originally posted by ITSME4G63
shoulda put the after my response

werd

 

[Defiant]

Originally posted by RiceKiller_TSi
What do you mean? Four wheel disc DSM's dont have drums... they have 4 discs. Four wheel disc brakes doesnt utilize drums at all.

I know, shocked the hell out of me, too. I'd not seen drum-in-discs, every car I'd had with 4-wheel discs (Datsuns) just used the rear calipers on the discs. Corvettes were using the brake-in-the-hat trick to a late date (I don't know if they still do), but I'm loathe to consider a Vette a car.

 

[RiceKiller_TSi]

I believe you guys but I still cant find that drum on the rear. I've skimmed my Haynes but I didnt see it in there. Im going out to the parking lot on my lunch break to look underneath... gosh Im gonna look like an idiot doing it but what the hell.

Where is the drum?

 

[beefstew4]

Maybe i can shed a little light with my experience.
I just replaced my rear hubs/bearings, calipers, pads, and discs on my 1g tsi fwd. On my particualar car, the setup used the rear calipers for the parking brake. There was a large spring and lever on the back of the piston that attached to the parking brake cable. This in turn pulled the spring loaded lever, (when you pulled the pking brake handle) and clamped the piston down on the disc. I believe all 1g's fwd, and awd have this setup.
i just reviewed a chilton that has 1g and 2g diagrams in it and appears that just the 2g cars have that "drum in disc" setup.
Now to the actual tiopic, i used to use my e-brake (pking brake) to do 180's and 360's in my 97 sonoma 4.3. And it ate the rear brakes up pretty good, worn down the pads, warped the rotors, and after a long while of doing this expensive e brake turning eventuall the truck did not brake as good as it used to, eventually causing me to rearend someone. I had purchased the truck new, and after 50000 miles, i had gone through 2 sets of pads in the back, and a set of rotors, 5 sets of pads in the front, and rotors.
Needless to say, do this at your own risk, if you have a bottomless pit for a pocket book, have fun but if your like the rest of the dsm community, e brake turning is too expensive of a habit to form.

 

[beefstew4]

hey rice killer, nice lookin ride by the way, do have airbags or does your suspension have just that much adjustability?

 

[RiceKiller_TSi]

Originally posted by beefstew4
hey rice killer, nice lookin ride by the way, do have airbags or does your suspension have just that much adjustability?

... its PS'ed.


BTW thanks for the info. I didnt think I had a drum on there.