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civicturbo79

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  1. slacken the cables right off on the adjuster nut in the rear ash tray , make sure the lever arms on the rear calipers are all the way back on the stops , then pump the brakes or drive the car around the block then adjust the cables to where you want the handbrake around 4 clicks is about right . you need to have everything loss and the levers on there stops so the adjusters inside the caliper do there job first . then adjust the cable . 

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  2. The inner workings of the calipers fail on the rear its a massive commen issue across the hole civic range not just mb's. could be siezed pistons also ,i would get them recondictioned as a pair .

    second commen problem is that people keep winding on the cabl to get the handbrake to work better , this does not work you need to make sure the cables are loose and the levers on the rear calipers are all the way back on there stops . at that point pump the foot brake a good 20 times then adjust the cables to get a hand brake . if the levers are off the stops on the calipers (slightly on ) the calipers will not adjust inside for the hand brake .

    Rich.

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  3. It will have been air in the system from when you did the coolant change . They always take a couple of days to settle down again . You should only need to top it up a couple of times and I'm sure it will be fine.

  4. This are always a pain in the a*s to bleed up . Drain the system and start again . Take you coolant and add boiling water to it so you have a 50/50 mix as you should and the fill the system. This will open the stat straigjt away forcing the air out of the rad . Run the car with the rad cap off and the heater on full and on hot till there is no bubbles coming out of the rad cap. Then refit cap.

    Rich.

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