i'm about to rebuild my second set of rear calipers, and here's my only gripe...

why in the heck does the latch for the e-brake not correspond to the correct caliper. the latch for the e-brake has an 'r' stamped on it, and the shaft that it's connected to has 'l' on it, and this will be on the right caliper. and vise-versa. there is no mention of this in the fsm, but i have seen it this way on the last two sets i have pulled fron cars, although i have not checked the ones currently on my car...

 

Nobody knows? This really bugs me. Can nobody confirm this, or look at theirs next time there in there for me?

 

Does nobody know, or is my question not clear?

 

where exactly are the letters, I can check the pair that I have sitting around.

 

There is a letter on the rear of the caliper itself, depicting that is a right or left unit. Then on the e-brake assembly there is two more stamped letters. One on the arm of the e-brake shaft, and one on the top of the shaft, before the threads. The one on the arm always corresponds to the caliper. Like, if it's the left caliper, it has a L stamped on the arm. Now, the shaft that the e-brake lever is attached to will read the opposite of the other two.

So, say I look at a left caliper. It has an L stamped on the caliper itself, and on the e-brake arm. BUT AN "R" STAMPED ON THE SHAFT OF THR E-BRAKE, WHY? And it's the same thing on the right caliper. I really think something is screwy here. And when it's apart, and I'm rebuilding it; I can visualise in my head it working better if I swaped the shafts of the e-brake. But the e-brake shaft and lever/arm were stuck together well enough to need to press them apart. I would have switched them, but that's the way they were on another set as well...

 

Anybody? I am gonna be doing the next ones soon, and I want to have this settled. I usually solve these kind of things w/the fsm, but it's not in there. I'll check again...later

 

Yeah, I noticed that also when I rebuilt my rears last weekend. I didn't really think anything of it untill I had to put them back together. I actually tried to switch the arms and match them up with the shafts, (putting some nice scratches in the Connecting Link) but once I got them back on the calipers the e-brake mechanism was reversed. i.e. When you pulled the arms toward you they locked the brakes and when you push the arms away from you (what the e-brake does) they would loosen. I actually had to dissasemble them again and switch it all back to how it was, which was a major PITA.

So, in short yes they are supposed to be like that. I don't know why...

 

Yeah, I tried it too with the same results... It's just seems wierd and counter productive to stamp the wrong letter on there, ya know? Oh well...later