Adjust the parking brake on your vehicle.
For the most bit, the parking brakes on your vehicle Testament not desire accustoming, as most parking brake systems come equipped with a self-adjusting mechanism. Nevertheless, after elderliness of function, a handbook accustoming may be required. Most systems subsume a check cable or rod, an equalizer bar, exercise cables or rods, adjusting mechanism, and a pedal or lever.
Instructions
Prepare
1. Inception the engine and depress the brake pedal diverse times to fully position the brake shoes in the brake drum. The equalizer yoke holds the two brake cables that connect to the rear tire brakes.5. Loosen the locknut on the equalizer yoke using a wrench. On some models, the equalizer bar does not bear this locknut; instead, Everyone brake cable is if with a turnbuckle at Everyone limitation (adjacent to the equalizer bar).
3. Push the parking brake three notches. Listen for the three clicks as you process on the parking brake pedal or pull the brake lever on the centre console.
Pedal Type
4. Set the parking brake equalizer bar or yoke all over the Centre incision of the underside of the vehicle. Then turn off the engine.2. Jack up the rear of the vehicle using a floor jack until the tires undarkened the ground, then benefit the vehicle on two jack stands and chock the front wheels.
6. Turn the adjusting devotee with a wrench or the turnbuckles with your artisan or a yoke of slip Seam pliers to receive rid of the excess slack on the brake cable.
7. Rotate both rear tires with your hands. You should sensation the brake shoes slightly drag against the brake drum. Provided not, deposit adjusting the seed or turnbuckles as described in the above manner. Then tighten the locknut and birr to the Parking Brake Trial incision.
Lever Type
8. Remove the console trim that covers the parking brake lever. Consult your owner's volume for the Correct procedure for your specific vehicle base.
9. Tighten the adjusting stone or nuts at the base of the hand lever using a ratchet and deep socket to receive rid of the excess slack on the brake cable.
10. Rotate the rear tires with your hands. You should feel a very slight drag of the brake shoes against the brake drum. Tighten the adjusting nut or nuts a little at a time, if necessary, and keep checking the rear tires for a slight drag.
11. Reinstall the console trim over the parking brake lever.
Parking Brake Check
12. Release the parking brake pedal or lever and apply the parking brakes. The pedal (or lever) should not travel too far before the parking brake is properly engaged. If it does, readjust the parking brake.
13. Lower the vehicle.
14. Park your vehicle on a slope and apply the parking brakes. The parking brake pedal or lever should not travel too far to properly hold the vehicle in place.
