EZ Go brakes

[jim,s]

A guy pulled into my drive while I was working on a golf cart with an EZ Go TXT with a problem where the brake pedal won't return. I was busy so I could not get into it, but I did lube the cables and pivot points.

Seems like 2 years I had another EZ Go stop by for the same thing. I ordered a spring and a new bolt. When I was trying to remove the bolt it was impossible. So I started the torch when heating the bolt I heard a pop so I stopped the torch and the brake was fine then. I'm not sure how an EZ Go brakes work but the guy just sold the cart and the brakes were still fine.

Maybe someone can chime in and tell me how to fix the brake issue. I don't think the torch is the proper way. Or is it????

[yurtle]

Depends on the model, but this should help you with a lot of years:

http://products.jacobsen.com/img/manuals/28646.pdf

They didn't invent the wheel with this year manual, and didn't reinvent it afterwards either, so the brakes may cover a wide range of years. I know steering changed and other smaller things.

Hope you were wearing a full face shield at the time. I've never had to mess with mine, but I looked at it a while back, and it seems like it could get ugly if not done properly.

[Cobra,1]

My guess is cart sat for long time with parking brake on.
This caused return spring to be under compression. The heat from torch expanded spring, bolt enough it freed up.
Did you try using generous amounts of penetrating oil on all pivot points. Soak then operate under assembly frees up. Guessing a bit of rust under cart binding things up.
Download manual from stickies and read thru brake section.
Do all adjustments in correct order mentioned in manual once linkage and cable move freely.
I ended up replacing brake cable since by the time you try and remove cables to free up.
Just as easy to replace along with new cable hardware 😊