From: utzoo!decvax!duke!mcnc!jwb
Newsgroups: net.auto
Title: Re: Backing up to even out brakes
Article-I.D.: mcnc.1515
Posted: Sat Feb  5 11:47:24 1983
Received: Sun Feb  6 05:45:23 1983
References: alice.1461

On Datsuns (1978 at least) the rear brakes are adjusted when the handbrake
is applied.  You can also tell if they are adjusted by the number of
clicks the handbrake makes.  It works too as my wife never applies the
handbrake.  I was able to engage and disengage the handbrake about 10
times and go from a condition of handbrake not holding (and probably
no rear braking in normal driving) to the nu mber of clicks specified
by Datsun.  I think this method is as valid as the American one and
may save backing into trees, ditches, etc.  Obviously applying the
handbrake while moving is the equivalent to "evening" the brakes
                                         Jack Buchanan
                                         University of National Champions
                                         Chapel Hill NC