The parking brake cable is the device that interacts with the brakes of the rear wheels. The well-known handbrake is now little used when stopping at an intersection, but on a manual VAZ-2114, for example, it is very convenient to use it on a steep descent.
When making turns, using the handbrake correctly can significantly reduce the turning radius. And if you have to jack up the car, it’s hard without a handbrake.
The handbrake should keep the car on the slope. To check, you need to park the car on level ground, put it on the handbrake and push it hard. If it starts to roll, then it’s time to change the cable.
Modification of hand brake cables
More than a year ago I had to change the handbrake cables on my car.
You can read more about this here; as it turned out, my cables cost tens of dollars. Well, I bought ten rubles and bought new ones, replaced them and drove off, but as it turned out, not everything is so simple. Even when I was assembling, I noticed that the spring, which is located at the end of the cable in the drum, was almost completely compressed even with the handbrake released, well, I think that’s probably how it should be, because there were the same cables. I assembled everything, adjusted the handbrake by 3 clicks, it seemed to be holding normally, and only after a few days I realized that the handbrake “holds” only on a flat surface or with a very slight slope of 10 degrees. Strange, there is nowhere to tighten it. I began to look into this issue in more depth, but as you can see, due to lack of time, the proceedings dragged on for more than a year. The first thought was the length of the cable, but in all the stores they insisted that cables 2108 and 2110 were absolutely the same in length, and they even presented both for comparison. As time passed, I had no doubt that that same spring was to blame for everything. The spring has compressed to the maximum, and the pads need a little more to jam the drum. The solution is simple - shorten the spring, which of course I did. The spring, although steel, is still soft, easily unravels and is bitten off with ordinary side cutters. I won’t say how many turns I shortened, but I cut off about 5 cm along the length of the unraveled spring. Now the handbrake tightens as it should and holds the car even on a 40-degree slope. I still did not leave the question of the length of the cable, and this is what it turned out when they just started producing these cars and all the parts were made at state enterprises according to strict GOST standards, the length of the VAZ 2108 cable was 1600 mm, and the length of the VAZ 2110 cable was 1680 mm, but over time there was no strict adherence to GOSTs, and anyone who was not too lazy began to produce spare parts, the cables were simply unified in length, and if you now look at the manufacturers’ catalogs, the length of cables 2108 and 2110 is 1623 and 1650 mm, respectively, plus or minus 30 mm for different manufacturers. Well, all we motorists can do is, as in the old joke, “after assembly, process it with a file.”
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Replacing handbrake cables
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