Could cause your Ebrake to hang, Spring is there to the brake lever on the caliper go back into place, it will definitely make your EBRAKE lever show it's on cause the cables not pulling the lever back into place. My GT does this now. I've got to fix it.
------------------ 86 Fiero 2M4 Silver, and 86 GT
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Marvin McInnis Member
Posts: 11599 From: ~ Kansas City, USA Registered: Apr 2002
Will this cause a problem SOON, LATER or NEVER????
At any moment. The symptom will be rear brake dragging, since the springs are not pushing the parking brake levers back to the rest position. Those springs need to be on there, even if you never use the parking brake.
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pop Member
Posts: 475 From: Port St. Lucie, FL USA Registered: Jan 2009
One of my prior fieros needed brake work and a new rear caliper. I took it to a shop (this was before I learned how to work on them) to have the work done. They forgot the spring on a new caliper. I made it two blocks down the road before the caliper started to grab. I immediately turned around and went back to the shop. By the time I got back, the rear brake was smoking. They had to replace the caliper again, and the rotor too.
After replacing two leaky calipers a total of 6 times removing and installing I can proudly say I can put the spring on by just using hands. The trick is to bow the spring outward and catch it in the edge of the lever. Then take a pair of vise grips and get the cable end secured into the stop. Then mash down the spring using hands to force it the rest of the way onto the lever arm.
^^What they said...avoid this shop!
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Reallybig Member
Posts: 974 From: Calgary Alberta Canada Registered: Mar 2011
