Your car definitely has a parking brake that's meant to keep it from moving when you don't want it to, but do you know how ...

Replacement and MaintenanceAlthough parking-brake cables are made of corrosion-resistant materials such as stainless steel, they can still suffer from rust, dirt, and the absence of lubrication.

One such project is connecting the parking brake cables from our Wilwood disc brakes so they can be actuated by the factory parking brake lever. 0:00 / 0:00.

On vehicles with rear drum brakes, the parking brake is usually attached with cables to the rear brakes, as shown in Figure 14-10. These are called integral parking brakes (see Figure 14-11).

As Auto Service Professional also points out, this drastically reduces the amount of real estate the parking brake system takes up, since you don't have cables leading away from the caliper to a ...

Of course an e-brake is not just for use in emergencies, but useful when parking, especially on a hill, or to stop a car from moving when it's started in gear because there's no neutral safety ...

In fact, with a pull-up parking brake like your Accord has, you’ll stretch and eventually break the parking brake cables if you use them that way every day.

Say goodbye to the mechanical parking brake and the levers, ratchets, cables and adjusters that go with it. Electrically operated parking brakes are starting to replace mechanical systems, which ...

One such project is connecting the parking brake cables from our Wilwood disc brakes so they can be actuated by the factory parking brake lever. 0:00 / 0:00.