Answer: A. The brake shoes must be correctly adjusted for the parking brake to work properly. There may not be enough adjustment in the parking brake system to overcome excessive shoe-to-drum clearance resulting in the parking brake not being able to hold the vehicle in place when it is applied. Technician B is wrong because the parking brake lever must be engaged a certain number of clicks before the equalizer is adjusted.
Tech A says the rest brake shoes should be properly adjusted before adjusting the parking brake. Tech B says the parking…