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- From: mark@wdcwdc.sps.mot.com (Mark Shaw)
- Subject: Re: [A]:Floods and VWs...some Questions....
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.210017.1256@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
- Sender: mark@wdc (Mark Shaw)
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- Organization: Motorola Western MCU Design Center, Chandler Arizona
- References: <1993Jan21.174301.24904@novell.com> <1k3m2lINNlfc@uwm.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:00:17 GMT
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- In article <1k3m2lINNlfc@uwm.edu>, danno@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Daniel Gary Soiney) writes:
- |> you realy don't need to adjust the shoes away from the drum first.
- |> simply remove the wheel and bang on the drum until the tone changes
- |> from a thud to a ringing noise. also, as a matter of habit don't use the
- |> parking brake if the car is going to sit more than a day or two.
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- I still find it interesting that suddenly it is bad practice to park your
- car with the parking brake set. I have done this since the early 60's on
- a variety of VW's and other stick shift cars without any problems. And that
- is in climates from -20F to 122F with either tons of moisture/rain/snow/ice or
- humidity down to near zero. (Indiana, Michigan, Texas, Arizona, California, Germany)
- I still cannot conceive why this should be a problem if the brakes are properly
- adjusted and have adequate lining.
-
- Maybe someone out there could enlighten me (and others) as to the mechanical
- or chemical reason for not using the parking brake.
-
- Mark
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