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Need some help on how to adjust the parking brake cables. I did the 280ZX rear brake upgrade on my 280, but I can't get the parking brake to work. It looks like the e-brake arm on the caliper runs out of play before the pads hit the rotor. The brake holds a little, but not enough to do any real good. I saw a post a while ago where someone said they worked the e-brake lever about 50 times to make the thing function correctly, but the ZX service guide says nothing about that. What's the secret?

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I could never get enough travel out of the S30 e-brake lever setup. The caliper's lever needs more pull than the drum. I put spacers on the cable ends at the caliper. After years of having just the slightest parking brake, that needed constant twiddling, I switched to a zx (S130) cable setup. But I'm having problems with that too - the middle cable (that attaches to the handle lever) is too long.

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