Xc90 parking "brake" adjustment

[jimbly2]

Hello,

I need to understand how the parking brake adjuster works on the xc90 - I've read many posts on it, looked at badly lit YouTube videos - but I just don't get it.

Please could some very patient member explain it to me as if talking to a very slow 7 year old?

Thanks very much -
Jim:thumbs_up:

It's a 2004 d5 SE

[gmonag]

It is counter-intuitive.

102616

You will need a suitable tool to expand the adjuster. I bought a cheap pair of large external circlip pliers (Silverline) and ground the ends to suit. You have to expand the adjuster to tighten the cable!

102617

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EXTERNAL-CIRCLIP-PLIERS-180MM-OR-230MM-SILVERLINE-CHOOSE-SIZE-/151247555660?var=&hash=item23370e8c4c:m:mUgZw49lYwfZrubgwZ54Z8Q

Hope that helps

[jimbly2]

Thanks Greg - but which bit do you expand with the tool? There's a cable which goes into a metal tube bit, which then fits into a sleeved bit with a knurled nut on the end that then goes back into a cable. ( There was also a circlip which pinged off into the dark recess as soon as I went near it !)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-_kA5vgsiP0MmxMc01jMHVvUzQ

Have attached a pic but not sure it it will work

[nu11eaf]

Hello,

I need to understand how the parking brake adjuster works on the xc90 - I've read many posts on it, looked at badly lit YouTube videos - but I just don't get it.

Please could some very patient member explain it to me as if talking to a very slow 7 year old?

Thanks very much -
Jim:thumbs_up:

It's a 2004 d5 SE

There is a tread on page 2 on this very subject.

Hope this helps: 102618

[jimbly2]

Thanks nu11eaf

This is the state of my adjuster:
https://www.flickr.com/gp/111489296@N05/rq040L

[jimbly2]

I'm sure I'm just being thick - Still struggling to understand the mechanism here but the illustrations are a big help :thumbs_up:

Update: I think my cable must be seized as the sleeve won't budge, let alone slide back down the adjustment rod.

[rapidvxr]

i just hold back piece with spanner and pipe grips on front piece and make it have it , then after mot back it off again a bit

[jimbly2]

Thanks Rapid

[jimbly2]

I finally managed to get it done - thanks for everyone's help - really useful resource here :thumbs_up:

[gmonag]

after mot back it off again a bit

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Why would you do that?

[rapidvxr]

?
Why would you do that?

because if i adjust it so it will pass the mot at 16% it binds , so i leave it backed off , so it passes the brake test with no binding , he then fails it on parking brake , i then adjust it and take it back ,