As our 1960 Corvette project rolls along, we are dealing with some of the smaller tasks involved in a frame-up build. One such project is connecting the parking brake cables from our Wilwood disc ...

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 shown in ...

Quickly fading are the days when we were free to dream of cranking a lever connected to cables that would squeeze the brakes and break traction, as more and more modern cars replace cabled emergency ...

A 14-bolt disc brake conversion is a popular and fairly simple upgrade for any full-floating 14-bolt. Not only do disc brakes improve stopping power, but ditching the drum sheds about 50 pounds per ...

The parking brake (or hand brake) holds one or more brakes continuously in the applied position. The parking brake employs the regular drum brakes on the rear wheel. Instead of hydraulic pressure, ...

Many moons ago, drivers would tug on an awkward metal lever, typically found on their vehicle's center console, to apply their parking brake. Typically, this was an entirely mechanical affair as this ...

The Problem: A number of the 2010 Ford Ranger compact trucks could have the parking-brake cable come disconnected from the right rear brake actuator in cold weather. The result would be parking brake ...

These instructions for adjusting your parking brake work only if you have drum brakes on your rear wheels. If you have a manual transmission, you may have a transmission-type parking brake, which ...