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There is an automatic adjuster built into the caliper to take up pad wear. There is an adjuster on the cable to take up stretch. Make sure you don't tighten the cable too far. It needs to have two or three clicks worth of free travel at the level in order for the automatic adjuster to work. If you find you keep having to tighten the cable, that probably means either you're adjusting it too tight and the automatic adjuster isn't getting a chance to work, or the automatic adjuster has seized/got gummed up.
GreenV8S said:
There is an automatic adjuster built into the caliper to take up pad wear. There is an adjuster on the cable to take up stretch. Make sure you don't tighten the cable too far. It needs to have two or three clicks worth of free travel at the level in order for the automatic adjuster to work. If you find you keep having to tighten the cable, that probably means either you're adjusting it too tight and the automatic adjuster isn't getting a chance to work, or the automatic adjuster has seized/got gummed up.
Or the cable might be stretched - just had to have mine changed as there wasn't enough adjustability to hold it on a hill... now it's almost acceptable :-)
if you fit genuine ford/motorcraft pads & discs as a set you will get a good handbrake,some of the patttern stuff does not have the same friction characteristics, hence poor handbrake performance.i speak from experience on various fords,there not even expensive,if there solid just quote sierra 2.0i with ABS rears as a good example circa 1990 at your local dealer.you get what you pay for.i presume your callipers are working as they should be no sticking handbrake arms etc,pads not jamming in carriers.
Edited by That Daddy on Sunday 29th October 20:57
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