Parking Brake System: Description and Operation

Parking Brake Lever:

GENERAL INFORMATION
All vehicles are equipped with a center mounted, hand operated park brake lever. This lever is an auto-adjust type which continuously applies minimal tension to the parking brake cables to keep them in adjustment at all times. Due to this feature, the park brake cable system does not require adjustment. Proper parking brake system adjustment is obtained by proper rear drum brake shoe adjustment.

DRUM BRAKE ACTS AS PARKING BRAKE
On this vehicle, the rear wheel service brakes also act as the vehicle's parking brakes. The rear drum brake shoes, when acting as parking brakes, are mechanically operated using an internal actuating lever and strut which is connected to a flexible steel cable. There is an individual park brake cable for each rear wheel, which are joined using a park cable equalizer before terminating at the floor mounted, hand operated park brake lever.