I had the fortune of being sucked into a mandatory brake job tonight. Pulled the rear rotors thinking I'd just clean them up, then button it back up and adjust. Wrong. As soon as I pulled the rotor off the shoes hit the ground in a pile of dust. Looked like I'd have to pull the axles to swap shoes which made it suck more. Realized later it can be done with axle shafts in place. Oh well...got fresh fluid now. What a PITA these park brakes are on Jeeps.

P.S. Do not grease the metal clips that the main pads slide on. The grease gets hot, gums up, and then makes the pads stick. No wonder my rear wheels were dusted so bad.

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2005 Stone White KJ Limited CRD 4x4
Off-Road Pkg
Trac-Lok
Emu 790s/948s
Skyjacker H7088s rear/Bilsteins front
15x7 Black Rock Lobos/31x10.50 Firestones
GDE HOT Tune + TCM Tune
Euro TC
CB radio
Thrush Turbo muffler
AEM DryFlow filter

I agree they can suck, but the other style parking brake is a mechanical lever built into the caliper which spins the piston out when actuated, these types of parking brakes suck way more imo. It makes the caliper more expensive, and if the piston doesn't want to spin back into the caliper for a simple brake job, you're stuck buying a whole caliper. All parking brakes are garbage, it'd be awesome if they put a disc on the transmission output for just the parking brake, I think some old Toyota land cruisers had this. At least it was a learning experience.

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2006 Black KJ Sport
31x1050r15 Nokian Vatiiva M/Ts
15x7 Cragar soft 8s
Skid Row engine skid
Skid Row gas tank skid
Hella 500s

You don't want a pinion parking barke(or t-case parking brake),they just don't work well and have a common issue of starting things on fire.I've seen one to many HMMWV's go up in flames when they still had the parking brake on the rear diff pinion with the fuel tank less then 2" away and morons that couldn't understand they needed to release the parking brakes before driving.

Yeah when I got married and now I've got kids playing around the driveway and in the street (our driveway slopes) suddenly a functioning parking brake became more important to me.

Not to mention the countless times on the trail that I've had to stop and get out to assess the situation and I feel better having a working P-brake while I'm on an incline.

I just hope they hold up. I got the low grade shoes, because apparently you can spend major cash on parking brake shoes for these Jeeps. Hopefully these won't disintegrate on me.

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2005 Stone White KJ Limited CRD 4x4
Off-Road Pkg
Trac-Lok
Emu 790s/948s
Skyjacker H7088s rear/Bilsteins front
15x7 Black Rock Lobos/31x10.50 Firestones
GDE HOT Tune + TCM Tune
Euro TC
CB radio
Thrush Turbo muffler
AEM DryFlow filter

My and past history with working on brakes, PARKING brakes must be used all the time wether it be a manual or auto trans when the vehicle gets parked. When used all the time it is rare to have problems with the parking brakes or components other than wear out replacement.