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Old 04-12-2005, 10:13 PM
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Originally Posted by hayaku
dunno if this is related or not, but when we swap kewl x5's brakes last saturday, the car was on the lift and only in park. no handbrake. the wheels could be turned by hand... interesting huh?
I might be missing something here, but shouldn't the wheels turn without the handbrake on? What would stop them? When you turned one wheel, did an opposing wheel rotate in the opposite direction? The parking pawl/ratchet is in the trans, and so one wheel spinning forward by hand with the driveline fixed will just spin the opposing wheel in reverse. Or did I misunderstand?

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