Parking brake malfunction? ++

[Jet Lizard]

Hello everybody!

Today my '93 Explorer 4x4 gave me another bit of trouble. I parked the car on a slope, shifted into Park, and then tried to push parking brake pedal.

It almost came to its normal "engaged" position, but then pedal collapsed to the floor with loud cracking sound, then sticked there. I pulled the release lever, it came to it's "disanged" position as usual.

I repeated the attempt with the same result: pedal comes to its normal position, then cracks and collapses to the floor (collapses under my feet pressure, of course).

I haven't attempted to check if the parking brake works while pedal is on the floor, though.

Have you ever encountered such a problem? Could it be wire cable, or pedal assy? Every bit of advice is appreciated!

With best regards,
Yuri

PS Not for a flame, just for your information. Authorities here paralyzed the city, not terrorists. Until the opened damaged subway line, they holded every entry to the city (at the south side) closed. No car could pass through.

They act pretty simple. Police officer pulls over large truck while other officer stop the traffic. Then they park the truck so it barricades all the road. You know, it is irreal feelings to see it. And they do the same thing at every large route. At minor routes as highway ramps they just park a police car. Should say that Moscow has a highway that circles the city, and this is city official border. So to block all movement in and out the city it's enought to block very few routes. But enough of this.

The reason was to reduce traffic during rush hour to let buses transfer passengers over closed down subway line.

Though, traffic jams paralyzed the city regardless their efforts. More, shortly after they opened that line, they opened all previously closed routes to the city. As result, right now (8:54 pm local time) city completely stuck in traffic.

Hour and half back my wife left her office and tried to get home. Now she's returning back to office because she spent more than an hour passing four intersections (normally, even in most hard rush-hour it takes not more than five minutes). I cannot let her go to subway, it would be nearly a suicide because of all these crowds there. And I cannot go pick her up as I have right the same situation here around my office.