Hey guys I was wondering if the vaccum line for the auto parking brake release was attached to the vaccum tree by the power break booster? I remeber someone saying that the B/R vaccum line went to the auto parking break release but I could be wrong. I was hoping I could just pull the line under the hood because I don't want to have to crawl under the dash to plug it if I don't have to:D
You have an auto parking brake release?
my car had it:hick: i just climbed under the dash to block it off.
My 82 has one of those, i'm afraid to use it cause I dont think it will release...
Auto? Are you talking about the little foot pedal all the way to the left with the lever above it to release it? Or is this something completely different?
yah its that thing and they have a vaccum release on some cars so when you put it in drive the park brake disengages
our lincoln has it and it works. iv noticed the line their before but never touched it or trusted it to work, considering the ebrake usualy hangs up on these cars sence their auto and nobody uses them ever.
There is one line that goes from the B/R (Brake Release) nipple on the main vacuum tee in the engine bay, through the firewall, then to a junction on the steering column, all the way underneath the dash and next to the firewall (white in color). There is another line from there over to the pedal. It's only on column shift cars that were equipped with it. The premise is that you actually use the parking brake, and if you're too lazy to reach under and release the pedal with your hand (or if you forget LOL), starting the car and putting it into gear will release the pedal for ya.
Would this be somthing that all LSC's would have come with? And aside crawling under the dash and looking for astray vacume hoses are there any easy ways of spoting it?
So can I just pull this line under the hood so I don't have to crawl under the dash to plug it? I just want to make sure this vacuum line dosen't feed to anything else. Mine has stopped working and it just leaks vacuum really bad now. I want to plug it and stop the vacuum leak. I've tried to by the little white cresent shaped thing that releases the brake but every time I go to the Ford dealer they say they can't get it anymore.
thats what i was told also thats why i just plugged it like you want to.
No manual release handle, just a pedal.
Nope mine has a manual relese pull lever like every other Tbird and the automatic parking break.
mmmkay, then where the hell did the handle on my 82 go to lol
I just went out to see if I have an automatic brake release and I do. I noticed it was unhooked. I hooked it up, and now I know why they unhooked it. It leaked pretty bad. So I undone everything.
I wonder if it was standard on all LX cars since both mine and thunderjet's cars are LX's?
I know all Tbird LXs with the column shifter had the auto parking brake but I don't know what Cougars did. Hey Blck85TBirdV8 how was yours unhooked? Was it unhooked under the dash or at the vacuum tee under the hood by the brake boster?
it was unhooked under the dash and the nipple thing on the tree was backwards. So really the only thing you need to do to unhook it is to turn the nipple on the tree around.
Thanks :D . I just disconected the line under the dash and shoved a small bolt in it. Vola no more vacuum leak:hick:
I recently bought a pristine dash and am ready to install it, but I'm stumped by something. When I pulled the old dash, there was a vacuum line hanging, disconnected right over where the fuse block goes. I'm thinking that HAS to be for an automatic parking brake release, but for the life of me, I can't find where it's supposed to go. The car is an 88 TC. Since the car has ATC, the vacuum line couldn't be for HVAC purposes. I've scoured the steering column area for a junction to hook this vacuum line to and don't see anything. Any ideas? I've checked the pedal area for an auto-release mechanism and don't see one of those either.
I don't know if the red car's one worked or not, never knew that this was what made the vacuum leak that changed when I moved the column shifter. The crown vic has it and workED flawlessly. My friend and I made so many late-night trips to McD's/taco bell and I'd always use it in the drive thru. He'd just shake his head while I had a huge grin on my face. :rollin:
Now....with the shortblock I hastily bought to get the car running again, the guy BEFORE the guy I bought it from put a mild cam in it, and now it doesn't pull enough vacuum to actuate it :( :hick:
Since the RWBB is a floor-shifted car (it's a TC) I guess I shouldn't be surprized that I didn't find an auto parking brake release. What has me absolutely baffled though, is why in the world would a car with EATC and NO automatic parking brake release have a vacuum line running through the firewall? The auto temp controls don't use vacuum like manual ones do. I just don't understand that.
Maybe it's universally part of all dash assemblies, there for a car that's optioned with it, and vestigial when it's not there. I also wondered if maybe it had to do with the dump valve on the brake pedal that tells the cruise servo to shut off when you hit the brakes but as I remember fixing my cruise servo there were only 1/4" (or whatever exact size) rubber hoses going to it not a thin hard plastic vac line.
That must be the case. I removed the hose before I put the new dash in. There's no sense in leaving the hose in if it serves no purpose.
my 83 Heritage and a 84 elan i owned both had the option. Always worked without a hitch.....