H3 Alpha - parking brake retainer

[jman1975]

Ok, so I was removing my rear brake rotors today to go and get them resurfaced. Turns out getting the rotors off was the easy part. The damn parking brake was corroded/seized to the inside of the rotor. So when I removed the rotor, the ebrake stuck and was knocked it out of position. Took me awhile to re-sit... But now I have a problem I couldn't figure out- how to put back into place the parking brake retainer pin, spring, and cap. Somehow I need to compress this tiny spring with little available space and lock the pin into place w/ the cap. Can't figure this out.


Anybody have any tricks up their sleeves? Anybody have experience messing around with the parking brake assembly??

 

[alrock]

Move south where there's no rust?

Sorry, not sure, haven't dealt with this myself.

 

[jman1975]

Move south where there's no rust?

Sorry, not sure, haven't dealt with this myself.

maybe you could get Minnesota to use less rock salt? I'd really be thankful for that one!

 

[jman1975]

found a tip on a Toyota forum- picture hanging wire to compress the retainer spring. Going to try that w/ a long needle-nose pliers to see if I can steady and get the pins back in place.

who at GM designed this parking brake setup? what a pain, geez

 

[Hercules-H3T]

found a tip on a Toyota forum- picture hanging wire to compress the retainer spring. Going to try that w/ a long needle-nose pliers to see if I can steady and get the pins back in place.

who at GM designed this parking brake setup? what a pain, geez

Probably the same one that decided on an inline 5 for a hummer.

 

[SedonaBound]

probably the same one that decided on an inline 5 for a hummer.

+1...lol

 

[08H3]

Yes, needle nose pliers are what you need. Probably take a couple tries to get it on there. I agree that the setup is over complicated. I had to replace the parking brake on my truck and it's a marvelously simple and more effective design. Why it's not the standard, I don't know.