MSP Parking Brake Does not engage

[Joeguy651]

2003.5 Mazdaspeed Protege.

Replaced rotors and pads all around. My parking brake will not engage anymore. From forum reading, MSP rear calipers are not like P5/MP3 calipers and therefore do not have the "allen wrench" adjustment feature. I have also tried tightening the 10mM bolt next to the hand brake.

If any of you are interested, the Rotors/pads combo I got was from ebay. Its the Magnum series, crossed drill with ceramic pads. Will let you know how they wear over the years. I'm not expecting superb results, but hey they are better than broken pads and rotors.

 

[powderider87]

and your sure you hooked up the cables to both of the calipers springs? is there tension when you lift up the ebrake or just sloppy?

 

[Joeguy651]

I didn't take off any cables when I replaced the brakes/caliper. There is definite tension when pulling. Car still moves (when I manually push the car) with E-brake engaged.

 

[Jo060]

I didn't know it was possible to not take off the E-brake like when doing the rears.

 

[Joeguy651]

hmmm... interesting comment... assuming it wasn't sarcastic, I'm gonna redo the process again. Maybe something was wrong with my parking brakes to begin with or something I did that made the parking brakes the way they are now. However, yes in deed I did install my brakes pads and calipers with the parking brake assembly still attached. Since I could move the assembly aside I didn't feel the need to detach the parking brake line from the calipers.