Sometimes I am an idiot.
During those times I forget to disengage my parking brake lever before reversing out of the drive.
After I realize i'm being an idiot I of course disengage the brake but soon realize that the amount of slack or freeplay (non engagement) in the parking brake lever has increased drastically. Like you could start pulling on the lever and feel resistance immediately before screwing everything up and now that you've been an idiot you have an new 1-2" before you feel tension.
It's at this point that I crawl under the Jeep and tighten up the 13m nuts on the parking brake splitter that exits the cab and merges with the two parking brake cables that run to the rear axle.
Am I the only one experiencing this nonsense? Is the nut slipping or is the cable stretching? Why can't I have nice things?
During those times I forget to disengage my parking brake lever before reversing out of the drive.
After I realize i'm being an idiot I of course disengage the brake but soon realize that the amount of slack or freeplay (non engagement) in the parking brake lever has increased drastically. Like you could start pulling on the lever and feel resistance immediately before screwing everything up and now that you've been an idiot you have an new 1-2" before you feel tension.
It's at this point that I crawl under the Jeep and tighten up the 13m nuts on the parking brake splitter that exits the cab and merges with the two parking brake cables that run to the rear axle.
Am I the only one experiencing this nonsense? Is the nut slipping or is the cable stretching? Why can't I have nice things?