Parking Brake Cable: Service and Repair
CABLES PARKING BRAKEREMOVAL
For servicing of either the left or right rear parking brake cable, follow the procedure as listed below.
1. Remove center floor console.
2. Lower park brake lever handle.
3. Loosen adjusting nut on park brake cable output cable. This will take tension off park brake cables, allowing rear park brake cables to be easily removed from tension equalizer.
4. Remove the rear park brake cable requiring service from the park brake cable tension equalizer.
5. Remove rear seat cushion from vehicle.
6. Remove scuff plates from right and left rear door sills. Scuff plates are attached to door sills using clips on bottom of scuff plates. Remove by carefully prying scuff plate retaining clips out of door sills.
7. Fold rear carpeting forward to expose park brake cables.
8. Install the box end of a 1/2 inch wrench over the park brake cable retainer as indicated. This will compress tabs on park brake cable retainer, allowing cable to be removed from console bracket. From under carpet, grasp park brake cable housing and pull cable straight out of console bracket.
9. Raise vehicle.
10. Remove rear wheel and tire assembly from the side of the vehicle requiring park brake cable service.
11. Remove parking brake shoes.
12. Remove the park brake cable from the park brake shoe actuating lever.
13. Remove park brake cable from rear brake adapter. To do this, Place a 1/2 inch wrench on cable housing and compress locking tabs on park brake cable retainer.
14. Remove the fasteners securing the 2 brake cable routing clips to the frame rail.
15. Remove the park brake cable and sealing grommet from the floor pan of the vehicle.
INSTALLATION
For servicing of either the left or right rear parking brake cable, follow the procedure as listed below.
1. Install parking brake cable into floor pan of vehicle making sure sealing grommet is installed in floor pan as far as possible to insure a proper seal.
2. Install park brake cable into the rear brake adapter. Be sure locking tabs on cable retainer are expanded to ensure park brake cable is securely held in the adapter.
NOTE: The park brake cable routing and routing clips are different on the right and left side of the vehicle. Be sure the correct routing clips are installed on the correct side of the vehicle.
3. Attach the 2 park brake cable routing clips on the rear frame rail. Install and securely tighten routing clip attaching screws.
4. Install the park brake cable on the park brake shoe actuating lever.
5. Install the parking brake shoes, hub and bearing, rotor and caliper.
6. Install rear wheel and tire assembly on vehicle. Tighten all wheel lug nuts in crisscross pattern to one-half specified torque. Then repeat pattern, fully tightening nuts to 135 Nm (100 ft. lbs.).
7. Lower vehicle.
8. Grasp park brake cable to floor pan seal grommet by hand, and pull it into floor pan to ensure seal grommet is fully seated into floor pan.
9. Route park brake cable under carpeting and up to park brake cable hole in console bracket on floor pan.
10. Install park brake cable into console bracket. Be sure tabs on park brake cable retainer, have expanded out to hold park brake cable in console bracket.
CAUTION: Discard output cable retaining clip and tension equalizer after removing it from the park brake output cable. A new tension equalizer and retaining clip is to be used when installing a new rear park brake cable.
11. Using a screwdriver, unlatch the park brake output cable retainer. Then remove cable retainer and park brake cable tension equalizer from park brake lever output cable and discard components.
CAUTION: A new cable tension equalizer must be installed when replacing a rear park brake cable. The new cable tension equalizer is required to correctly adjust park brake cable tension after installing a new rear park brake cable.
12. Install a NEW park brake cable tension equalizer on the park brake lever output cable and rear park brake cables .
CAUTION: A new retainer must be used when installing the park brake mechanism output cable on the cable tension equalizer. Cable retainer usage is required to ensure output cable can not separate from tension equalizer.
13. Install a NEW park brake lever output cable to tension equalizer retaining clip on tension equalizer. The cable retainer must be closed and securely latched.
14. Adjust cable tension for the parking brake system using the following steps.
^ Position parking brake lever so it is in the fully released position.
^ Tighten the adjusting nut on the parking brake lever output cable until 26 mm millimeters of thread is out past top edge of adjustment nut.
^ Actuate the parking brake lever to its fully applied position (15 clicks) 1 time and then reposition the lever to its fully released position.
NOTE: Actuating the parking brake lever to its fully applied position one time after tightening the adjustment nut will yield (stretch) the bent nail portion of the tension equalizer approximately 1/4 inch. This process will correctly set the parking brake cable tension.
15. Check the rear wheels of the vehicle with the park brake lever fully released, they should rotate freely without dragging.
16. After the park brake cable tension has been properly adjusted, check for free play in park brake lever. Park brake hand lever should feel firm at all clicks, with a maximum of 15 clicks of lever travel possible.
17. Install the center floor console.
18. Install rear carpeting.
19. Install both rear door sill plate moldings by snapping them onto rear door sills.
20. Install lower rear seat cushion.