The parking brake, or emergency brake, is usually attached to a car’s rear wheels. On vehicles with rear drum brakes, the parking brake is usually attached with cables to the rear brakes, as ...

Parking brakes on automatic-transmission-equipped vehicles are often neglected. For example, corrosion can prevent the cable mechanism from operating smoothly or it may require adjustment to ...

The release knob slackens the cables and disengages the brake shoes. The parking brake is self adjusting. An automatic adjuster in the piston moves on the thrust screw to compensate for lining wear.

Bill sent us the body cables, adjustment stud, return spring, parking-brake short cable, and all of the hardware necessary for installation. Garrett Marks at Mustangs, Etc. set us up with the used ...

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 ...

Classic Performance Products offers a rear disc brake kit to install their own rotors and Cadillac-style calipers with parking brake on the stock 1955 rearend.

Your transmission can make thousands of gear changes with no trouble, but park wrong on an incline and you're courting disaster. Here's how to do it right.