Parking Brake Lever: Service and Repair

REMOVAL

NOTE: The parking brake lever assembly on this vehicle is serviced with the front cable installed on it. They should be removed, replaced, and installed as an assembly.






1. Remove remote ground cable from ground stud on shock tower. Then correctly isolate ground cable from vehicle by installing isolator on stud.
2. Raise the vehicle using a frame contact type hoist or correctly supported on jackstands.
3. Loosen the park brake tensioner adjuster nut, in front of the rear crossmember, until tension is removed from cables.
4. Disconnect the cable connector between the front and intermediate cable.
5. Lower the vehicle to the ground.
6. Remove the driver's door opening sill cover.
7. Remove the driver's side kick panel.






8. Remove the fuse panel cover from the left end of the instrument panel.






9. Remove the 2 screws behind the fuse panel cover,attaching the lower instrument panel cover to the instrument panel mounting bracket.
10. Remove the lower instrument panel cover from the instrument panel. It is attached by retaining clips along the top and right edge.






11. Remove the wiring harness connector from the trunk release switch in the lower instrument panel driver.






12. Remove the park brake release cable from the park brake release handle in the lower instrument Dane1 cover.






13. Remove the 4 bolts mounting the reinforcement to the instrument panel. Remove the reinforcement from the instrument panel. Remove the diagnostic connector from the reinforcement.
14. Remove the lower A/C duct below the steering column. It is secured with 1 screw.






15. Remove the 2 lower mounting screws securing fuse junction block bracket to instrument panel end housing.
16. Remove the 2 screws securing fuse junction block upper edge to the instrument panel bracket. These screws are installed from above the right side of the fuse junction block and mount to the left.
17. Remove the dome lamp wiring harness connector from the fuse junction block.
18. Move fuse junction block as far down and to the right as possible without causing damage to the harness or fuse junction block.
19. Remove left rear door opening sill cover.
20. Remove front seat belt anchor bolt at base of left B-pillar.
21. Pull back floor carpeting on left side of passenger compartment to reveal front park brake cable.






22. Remove the 2 screws securing the front park brake cable retainer bracket to the rear floor pan.






23. Remove 2 routing bracket screws securing front park brake cable to left side of the passenger compartment floor. One is at the base of the B-pillar by the seat belt anchor bolt , and the other is below the park brake lever assembly on the floor pan.
24. Remove the rear bolt, and loosen the 2 front nuts on studs, securing the park brake lever assembly in place.
25. Lower the park brake lever assembly enough to gain access to the warning lamp ground wire connector. Remove the brake warning light ground wire from the switch on the park brake lever assembly.
26. Continue to move park brake lever, with front park brake cable attached, downward, and remove both from vehicle together.

INSTALLATION
1. Install the park brake lever, with front cable, assembly back in vehicle by first running the front cable, starting from front to the rear, along the left side of passenger compartment. Guide it into the hole at the rear of the floor pan.
2. Guiding the lever assembly up past the fuse junction block, position the park brake release cable into place. Also, reinstall the brake warning lamp wire, through access hole in lever assembly, onto switch.
3. Position the lever assembly in its mounting place. Install the rear mounting bolt and tighten it to a torque of 27 Nm (19 ft. lbs.). Tighten the 2 mounting nuts to a torque of 27 Nm (19 ft. lbs.).
4. Ensure that the park brake cable is properly routed and install the two routing bracket screws.
5. Install the 2 screws securing the front park brake cable retainer bracket to the rear floor pan.
6. Reposition the carpeting in place.
7. Reinstall the front seat belt anchor bolt at the base of the B-pillar.
8. Reinstall the rear door opening sill cover.
9. Reposition the fuse junction block in place, and install the two lower, then, the two upper mounting screws.
10. Reinstall the lower A/C duct in place.
11. Install the diagnostic connector to the instrument panel steel reinforcement. Reinstall the steel reinforcement to the instrument panel.
12. Connect the park brake release cable to the release handle.
13. Reconnect the trunk release harness connector to the release switch.
14. Reinstall the lower instrument panel cover below the steering column. Reinstall the 2 screws securing the lower instrument panel cover behind the fuse panel cover.
15. Reinstall the fuse panel cover on left side of instrument panel.
16. Reinstall driver's side kick panel
17. Reinstall driver's door opening sill cover
18. Raise the vehicle up.
19. Reconnect the cable connector between the front and intermediate cables.
20. Adjust parking brake.
21. Lower the vehicle.