When I pull my ebrake up on the passenger side is locking the brakes up. The driver side isn't doing anything. Both are hooked up identically and properly. Suggestions? I need to move the car down a steep hill and the brake booster/brake lines are removed at the moment due to an abs delete. It's being towed but I have to roll the car into my parkade which is steep enough to require brakes.

 

Have you checked to see that the isnt maybe broken line there on that specific side when you pull up the brake?

 

Bad caliper or broken cable, look to see if the lever on the caliper is moving when yo pull the ebrake.

 

Caliper is a fresh re-man. Piston is not seized in it, moves freely. When I checked the lines it is moving, but just enough that the pad touches the brake rotor. Not enough to lock it up. I'm going to try and fix it tomorrow.

 

If the hydraulic lines are not connected there is no way for the auto self adjusting screw jack to work. A trick that may work is to jam a screwdriver on the piston pad, while having another person exercise the hand brake.

 

Yeah, like mentioned above the caliper wont adjust out without hydraulic pressure. You need to get the piston to come out to where it would normally operate before the ebrake will work

 

I have this problem quite often with re-man calipers, even with hydraulic pressure, where the self-adjusting mechanism doesn't work. so I just screw the piston in or out til its in the tightest position that still fits on the rotor. if that isn't enough, I kept the stock brake pad shims and take up the small amount of extra space with one shim on one pad, or one shim on both pads.

 

also do you have the dual proportioning valve to do this also?

 

Thanks guys for the answers. It ended up getting really cold so I never went and tried (unheated garage in -25degree Celsius) but will be trying this weekend. I have a civic prop valve in my prelude right now. It is out of an EG. I believe dual but idk if they are dual. I did not know that ebrakes required hydraulic pressure from the fluid to work. I ended up buying the brake booster vac tool so I can set the pin correctly. I'm going to get my brakes hooked up and bleed them correctly then see if the ebrake is working again.

 

the ebrake does not use hydraulic pressure to operate, it only uses the hydraulic pressure to self adjust. once adjusted properly, you can literally remove the brake hoses from both of the calipers and the ebrake will still work flawlessly.

 

Ahhhhh ok cool thanks for the clarification.