Trying to fix my parking brake so I can do a proper burnout at the strip. I adjusted it to where the passenger side works great but I can not get the cable on the driver side to pull out more then 1/2" I can twist the cable and see that its free but I cant pull it in and out. Time for a new cable? I cant even see how I disconnect the driver side cable.
E-brake cable help
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ShadetreeSHOguy
Postwhore
It's crank cancer
kevinspann
Don't take my advice.
Is it unhooked at both ends?
It is at the caliper that is where I am pulling it from and I cant get it to come out any. I dont see where I can disconnect it on the other end
kevinspann
Don't take my advice.
Is your shit all rusted together? I can't remember which cable goes to the passenger side, and which goes to the driver's side. It has a threaded end with a nut that you use to adjust tension, but I was never able to get mine to come apart. I just cut it and replaced the cables.
daveM 89 MTX
89 black mtx
thats literally what i have just done within the last week had to replace both of my calipers which oth cables were rusted to and as far as ive done that has made them both work is the adjuster on the drivers side before the tire but i could b wrong maybe mine was a fluke?
sperold
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The passenger side is the super long cable and it usually is the one to give you grief.
If your foot brake is bottoming out, and your passenger side is tight, that usually means your drivers side cable is not adjusted to the correct length. That is done on the drivers side ahead of the rear wheel, your foot cable comes that far, then there is a "Tee" apparatus that the 2 rear cables attach-to, with the foot cable in the middle of the Tee. There is adjustment on the driver's rear wheel cable at that Tee contraption, you have to use an open end wrench.
If you want it off, there is a pig-tail spring on your rear brake housing and the cable end is at that spring, but it sound like your cable is OK, just badly adjusted.
If your foot brake is bottoming out, and your passenger side is tight, that usually means your drivers side cable is not adjusted to the correct length. That is done on the drivers side ahead of the rear wheel, your foot cable comes that far, then there is a "Tee" apparatus that the 2 rear cables attach-to, with the foot cable in the middle of the Tee. There is adjustment on the driver's rear wheel cable at that Tee contraption, you have to use an open end wrench.
If you want it off, there is a pig-tail spring on your rear brake housing and the cable end is at that spring, but it sound like your cable is OK, just badly adjusted.
I will try to take pictures tomorrow to try to give you guys a idea about what I should do. I know I got the passenger side adjusted correctly and it bites down ******* the rotor now. But the driver side it does not matter if the ebrake is released or engadged I cant pull the cable out to put it on the caliper. I dont see how the driver side is adjustable?
sperold
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The sheating is anchored in a metal clip that is part of the car body. The cable comes out of the sheathing and has the equivalent of a piece of threaded rod built into the cable. There are 2 nuts on this treaded rod, and those 2 nuts trap the cable to the metal tee thing that your front cable pulls on.
The only place the cables gum up is at the point where they enter the sheath, so get a torch out and heat the end a bit and move the cable in and out. You can do that by getting a buddy to climb under the car behind the drivers rear tire with a tire iron and use the pointy end to pry that little piglet spring back when the cable is drawn forward.
You will be in the car running the emergency brake pedal.
The only place the cables gum up is at the point where they enter the sheath, so get a torch out and heat the end a bit and move the cable in and out. You can do that by getting a buddy to climb under the car behind the drivers rear tire with a tire iron and use the pointy end to pry that little piglet spring back when the cable is drawn forward.
You will be in the car running the emergency brake pedal.
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