I've done it, too.  Doesn't say good things about the parking brake as
supplied...or is it called the Emergency Brake?  Probably not called the E
brake because of liability...If you tried to stop your vanagon in an
emergency with these brakes, you would probably hit whatever you were trying
to stop for...I mean, if we can drive around with our 'conservative on
 power' motors and not even notice the effects of having that hand brake
on....

  Mine will now hold my van on a 4% slope without the aid of the
transmission...before....with the old style handle...no...

  So, can we add an ineffictive parking brake to the list of 'misses' or
'less than perfect designs' from VW and the vanagon designers?
  We surely have to begin the list with not so great headgaskets on the WBX
motor..
   We should include the heater valve and maybe the headlight switches..any
others?

  Don Hanson

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Bill Shawley <easywind1975@hotmail.com>wrote:

> I've had the same experience as Michael, (embarassed to say I've done it
> twice).  I did flush out my fluid as early as convenient figuring it was
> "shot".  No problems since.
>
> Ryan
>
>