850 parking brake adjustment?

mabbott · Post by **mabbott** » 07 Feb 2005, 08:31

Does anyone have the info. on how to adjust the parking brakes on the 850?

Post by **dosbricks** » 08 Feb 2005, 19:01

The parking brake uses a small drum and shoe setup on the inside of the rear rotors. A minor adjustment can be made to the cable by removing the inside bottom of the console storage. It should set firmly at between 5 & 8 clicks.

If more adjustment is required it is necessary to remove the rear wheels and adjust each set of shoes by rotating the "star wheel" inside the top of the rotor using a screw driver through the little offset hole provided in the rotor. The adjustment wheel should be threaded out to set the brake lightly and then backed off about 5 notches. Set the brake and release a few times to make sure there is no drag sound and adjustment is correct.

mabbott · Post by **mabbott** » 09 Feb 2005, 07:19

dosbricks, thank you for the information. I do recall the extra hole in the rotor and wondered what it was for......now I know.