[57Chevy]

do you have any warning light output from the calipers? What happens if the driver doesn't fully release it and goes for a long drive?

 

[TeZla]

do you have any warning light output from the calipers? What happens if the driver doesn't fully release it and goes for a long drive?

Ohh, i've seen the results of this haha.

Back when I was silly enough to turn spanners for everyone else, We had a bunch of Mercedes Sprinter vans come into the workshop for a recall, They were retrofitted into ambulances for the Victorian Ambulance Service. The outfit that did the retrofit managed to disconnect the handbrake warning light on the dash of every single one they did, so we got the recall job to fix the wiring problem and replace the rear brake rotors and handbrake shoes. The paramedics would often forget to disengage the handbrake all the way because it was located so low on the floor, It actually took leaning sideways on the seat to really put it down. The engine was plenty strong enough to overpower the handbrake and they'd drive away, the shoes inside the drum would burn out and cook the rotors. The worst one we had got so damn hot it actually split the disc from the rotor hat, Boom, no more rear brakes and a fully floating rotor.

A tourquey electric motor should have no problems at all overpowering the handbrake...

 

[joekitch]

in for updates
the stock parking brake on the c3 corvette is legit dangerously bad, would very much like a good electronic caliper for not much cash

 

[remy_martian]

Is that by design or is yours simply not properly adjusted?

The caliper is the easy part. You need to find a way to mount it.

 

[joekitch]

Trust me, c3 owners have been trying to adjust their parking brakes for dang on 52 years no without much success

Mounting a parking brake caliper I'm not too worried about tbh, sendcutsend to the rescue

 

[brian_]

the stock parking brake on the c3 corvette is legit dangerously bad, would very much like a good electronic caliper for not much cash

Ah, the infamous rotor-hat-as-drum design. My Toyota van has that - I hate it, too. This system was largely replaced by the type which integrates a mechanical parking function with the hydraulic cylinder of a sliding caliper (originally by pull cable, but now usually by caliper-mounted electric motor)... but that doesn't work with an opposed-piston (fixed body) caliper and a separate parking caliper (which is what Tesla did initially in the Model S) is certainly a valid solution.

 

[Lowcoe]

Bobs my uncle….