200X parking brake questions

[dcreel]

My 1983 200x doesn't have a parking brake cable, but there is an adjuster there. The part that the cable attaches too. This adjuster can spin around like a clock and it will go in and out. There is a bolt that goes into the caliper, and this adjuster is attached to that.

I am leaking a small amount of brake fluid out of the parking brake part of the caliper. How does the adjuster work? Do I tighten it clockwise to disable the parking brake? Tighten it? Remove it?

My brakes are dragging and I don't use a parking brake, I'm just trying to figure out how to remove the parking brake or disable it in the "unlocked" position. I can force the inboard brake pad away from the rotor with a screwdriver and it won't drag. I use the brake once and it drags.

Help me please.
Doug

[hrc200x]

You should have to loosen the jam nut and back the bolt out a bit, the parking brake shouldn't be applying its self by just riding around. I doubt the parking brake is your problem. They do make a parking brake block off plate, they are usually a billet piece and bolt to the caliper with the stock two bolts that are holding the current brake mechanism on.

If everything was in working order the cable would pull the arm, the thing the arm bolts to is on a very coarse thread so as the cable pulls it, it threads in fast pushing on a little nub on the backside of the piston pushing the piston into the pad, applying the brakes.

Your leeking fluid because where that little nub comes through the caliper to the parking brake side of the caliper there is a small o ring, about the size pencil eraser.

Sounds like your dragging issue is possibly the piston not retracting on its own after pressure is released, or the slider pin is froze. The slider pin is the allen head you see going through the caliper with rubber boots around it, the caliper is supposed to slide on this pin which automatically adjusts the setup so the outter and inner pads wear the same ammount and keeps the disk aligned between the two pads.

[dcreel]

Thank you very much for the information.