Park break

Tiny
DEVILBEARCA
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  • FORD ESCORT
I just bought a 97 ford escort with 245,000. Manual tranny. The park break doens't work. When I pull up on it I can pull it up with 1 finger, no resistance.
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007 AT 12:54 PM

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Tiny
TAURUSWHEEL
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  • 718 POSTS
Obviously, something is either unhooked or broken. A loy of times the cables will start to corrode, what happens is the parking brake will not fully release so people either unhook them or fix it. With a manual trans you really should have an operable brake. You know so the day you leave iit in a forward gear facing down the hill, it won't end up in someone's house.
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007 AT 3:12 PM

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