Anyone else drive w/parking brake engaged?

Les C · Sep 9, 2010

Surely I'm not the 1st to to do so, now I have a metal on metal noise when I apply the brakes, will this go away? I drove 7-8 miles in stop-n-go traffic before I noticed the smoke.

Thanks in advance for any advice & owning up to doing it too!

Kevin Palmer · Sep 9, 2010

OHHHH, you are most certainly not the first nor will you be the last....

You will probably need to remove the rear drums/rotors (I listed both as you have NOTHING in your profile)...

If you have rear rotors, you will need to look in the e-brake drum within the rotor to see if something has broke loose. Could be the pads themselves floating around in there.

If you have rear drums, then it uses the actual rear brake shoes and they may be damaged...

Christopher Comeaux · Sep 9, 2010

there is a light that should come on the dash if it is engaged oh well live and learn

Bill Barber · Sep 9, 2010

left mine on so many times I had zero Ebrakes, actually for about two yrs.

Easy cheap fix, did mine several weeks ago, seems wierd to start the trac, mash on the go pedel, and the truck will not move.

Kevin Lang · Sep 10, 2010

Did that when I first got my trac, in a seedier area within the DC beltway...figured that the burning smell couldn't be me, I've got a nice ST, it has to be one of the ricers around with the multicolored fenders...but no, it wasn't.

there is a light that should come on the dash if it is engaged oh well live and learn

The key word in that sentence is marked. I know for a fact that my light did NOT come on.

Jim Johnson · Sep 10, 2010

I never drove one of my own vehicles with the parking brake on, but when I was about 18, I forgot to release the brake on someone else's dump truck before driving it. (I wondered why it seemed so sluggish.) It was one of those parking brakes that's connected to the driveshaft. Someone behind me started flashing their headlights at me, and when I got out of the truck, the brake was on fire! We put it out with a fire extinguisher before the fire company arrived. Needless to say, I was more than a little embarrassed.