Rich, in all probability, your parking-brake may only need an adjustment, or, @ worst, a re-lining or replacement of the parking brake 'shoe'. A replacement of the carrier gear-set is a bolt-in operation. The rear brakes can be made to "fall-off" the axle housing. It's your dinero, but the replacement of the rear axle would not appear to be a very "economical" operation. Neil -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Over 25,000 pages of archived Forward Look information can be easily searched at http://www.forwardlook.net/search.htm Powered by Google! |