E brake noise

[swathdiver]

Me too not usually on level but any type of slope it gets engaged.

I wish the release lever was a bit higher on the dash that may be a tinkering mod I do one day.

You can replace the system with the push to release type, use your foot to engage and dis-engage. It was RPO JNC. Costs about $130 for the mechanism and the three cables. Then you can make a kill switch or something out of the old lever!

 

[OR VietVet]

You can replace the system with the push to release type, use your foot to engage and dis-engage. It was RPO JNC. Costs about $130 for the mechanism and the three cables. Then you can make a kill switch or something out of the old lever!

Or set up that lever so that you can do a "Duke's of Hazard" spin around and release with that lever to take off like a bat out of hell. I know a guy that did that on his 69 Charger and he lengthened the lever so he did not have to reach so far to release it when he was spinning around.

 

[89Suburban]

There is a whole empty dash panel there ripe for modifying just want to move the lever up to a reasonable height instead of reaching for my ******* ankles LOL.

 

[S33k3r]

In that case the word "brake" would be spelled "break".

"Brake" definitely has a different connotation than "break"... "You definitely do not want to "p brake"!

 

[swathdiver]

Or set up that lever so that you can do a "Duke's of Hazard" spin around and release with that lever to take off like a bat out of hell. I know a guy that did that on his 69 Charger and he lengthened the lever so he did not have to reach so far to release it when he was spinning around.

When I was a kid, I rigged up a poor man's trans brake, took a coat hanger and wrapped it around the emergency brake release (that's what they were in the '80s) and then had it looped through my left hand. Like walking and chewing gum at the same time, I kept launching first and then pulling the brake release! LOL The final time I was a little slower than normal and left my rear brakes all over the first sixty feet on the track! We used a couple of vise grips to clip off the broken lines and drove the 66 miles home with basically no brakes. Fun times! LOL

It's wise to keep on top of maintenance even for such mundane items as the parking brake system, you don't use it, you will lose it! A few weeks ago, a fella was stuck in 4LO, he used it to get out of a construction job site and then the actuator got stuck and he was doing 25 mph to the mechanic's shop.

 

[Mooseman93]

So towing my boat home from the lake at 1 am-and i hear a boom like i ran over a 4x4 in the road out of the rear of tahoe.Well didnt have tools to take it apart and guessing it was the e brake parts.I limped it home,got it apart.Adjuster broke in half and pad was just rubbing loosely inside the rotor hat.Sounded horrible all the way home.Talked with my mechanic buddy at chevy-he said same thing happened on his silverado.He asked when is the last time i used my ebrake i said never.He said take out all the hardware and leave it out.Nothing like eliminating a future problem before it happens.So i thru the junk in the garbage.I guess their was a tsb out on the clip that holds it to the backing plate-not for me i dont want it on the tahoe.Almost left me stranded at 1 am on side of road with a snow storm coming in an hour f that.

Mine disintegrated a long time ago. Made a horrible noise. I cleared out the debris and reasoned that I rarely use the parking brake anyway so I didn't replace it. Fast forward 10 years later, I am towing the boat and the brake lines chose that moment to rust through. I instinctively went for the parking brake and quickly remembered my earlier decision to live without it. By some miracle I was on flat terrain with no one in front of me, so I was able to get it slowed down by downshifting and easing it into the grass next to the road to stop it.

So anyway, parking brakes are good to have, I found out.

 

[corvette744]

I agree emergency brakes are a good thing to have in an emergency.I just choose for now not to have it on my vehicle.In 30 yrs of towing boats and fishing every week i have never used it in any of my vehicles.Never had any driveline problems because i didnt use it at the launch and dont see any in the future.I do see that inferior parts will put me on the side of the road when that could of been avoided so action was taken to not have that happen again.If you lose brake fluid the big red light on the dash which comes on when your fluid gets low enough in the master cylinder will warn me of that.Been their done that one.Maybe i will hook it back up again but only because if the emergency situation if for any reason.Now that i have talked with alot of my friends with tahoe- suburban and silverados-all of them have thrown it in the trash.Many have been towed home to get fixed because of the clip braking or something else in their going wrong.And those parking brake pads were changed when i did the rear brakes 1500 miles ago F that.

 

[Mooseman93]

I agree emergency brakes are a good thing to have in an emergency.I just choose for now not to have it on my vehicle.In 30 yrs of towing boats and fishing every week i have never used it in any of my vehicles.Never had any driveline problems because i didnt use it at the launch and dont see any in the future.I do see that inferior parts will put me on the side of the road when that could of been avoided so action was taken to not have that happen again.If you lose brake fluid the big red light on the dash which comes on when your fluid gets low enough in the master cylinder will warn me of that.Been their done that one.Maybe i will hook it back up again but only because if the emergency situation if for any reason.Now that i have talked with alot of my friends with tahoe- suburban and silverados-all of them have thrown it in the trash.Many have been towed home to get fixed because of the clip braking or something else in their going wrong.And those parking brake pads were changed when i did the rear brakes 1500 miles ago F that.

Well yeah, unless your abs control module does that thing where the solders go bad so you pull the fuse because who needs abs anyway, causing the red brake light to be on all the time so you don't know that it lost all its fluid...

Probably no one on here should take my advice except for what not to do lol