The car in question: 2002 Mazda Protege5
Service manual I used to help: http://protege5.ugly.net/#brakes
The problem started when my rear left caliper was intermittently sticky. You can see the difference in wear between the pads below. The rear left pads were far more worn down. I plan to replace the left caliper assembly with a remanufactured unit in the near future.
So, the other day I replaced both sides of my rear brake pads. Everything went well until afterwards, I tested the parking brake. As I expected, it was limp so I adjusted the brake piston on each side using the adjustment gear as directed, making sure the rotor didn't drag. That didn't help much. Then, I went to the adjustment bolt at the side of the parking brake and that proved to be even more useless.
Here I am now, and by manually pulling on the parking brake cable at each brake, the left cable doesn't push the piston in at all, and the right cable only slightly affects the piston's position. The parking brake handle stills pulls up freely all the way to the fully up position and it only slightly grabs the right side rotor.
What am I missing here?
Service manual I used to help: http://protege5.ugly.net/#brakes
The problem started when my rear left caliper was intermittently sticky. You can see the difference in wear between the pads below. The rear left pads were far more worn down. I plan to replace the left caliper assembly with a remanufactured unit in the near future.
So, the other day I replaced both sides of my rear brake pads. Everything went well until afterwards, I tested the parking brake. As I expected, it was limp so I adjusted the brake piston on each side using the adjustment gear as directed, making sure the rotor didn't drag. That didn't help much. Then, I went to the adjustment bolt at the side of the parking brake and that proved to be even more useless.
Here I am now, and by manually pulling on the parking brake cable at each brake, the left cable doesn't push the piston in at all, and the right cable only slightly affects the piston's position. The parking brake handle stills pulls up freely all the way to the fully up position and it only slightly grabs the right side rotor.
What am I missing here?