Parking Brake Cable: Service and Repair
CABLES PARKING BRAKEREMOVAL
For servicing 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 (Fig. 73) 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 parking brake cable requiring service from the parking brake cable tension equalizer (Fig. 74).
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 12 point 1/2 inch or 13 mm box wrench over parking brake cable retainer as indicated (Fig. 75). This will compress tabs on parking 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.
11. On vehicles with rear disc brakes, remove caliper, rotor, hub and bearing, and parking brake shoes.
12. On vehicles with rear drum brakes, remove hub and bearing dust cap and retaining nut, then slide hub and bearing off spindle.
13. Remove parking brake cable from parking brake actuating lever (Fig. 76).
14. Remove parking brake cable from rear disc brake adapter or drum brake support plate. If access allows, place a 1/2 inch or 13 mm box wrench over cable housing and compress locking tabs on cable retainer (Fig. 77). If access does not allow, a screwdriver may be used to press each tab in individually while light pulling tension is applied to cable from rear. Once all tabs are compressed, pull cable out of adapter/plate.
15. Remove fasteners securing two cable routing clips to frame rail.
16. Remove parking brake cable and sealing grommet (Fig. 78) from floor pan of vehicle.
INSTALLATION
For servicing either the left or right 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 (Fig. 78).
2. Install parking brake cable into rear disc brake adapter or drum support plate. Once installed in place, be sure locking tabs on cable housing retainer are expanded.
NOTE: Parking brake cable routing and routing clips are different on right and left sides of vehicle. Be sure correct routing clips are installed on correct side of vehicle.
3. Attach two parking brake cable routing clips on rear frame rail. Install and securely tighten routing clip attaching screws.
4. Install end of cable on parking brake actuating lever (Fig. 79). Guide spring beneath retaining tab on lever.
5. On vehicles with rear disc brakes, install and adjust parking brake shoes, install hub and bearing, rotor and caliper.
6. On vehicles with rear drum brakes:
a) Insert cable into cable guide attached to anchor retaining plate.
b) Slide hub and bearing onto spindle. Install retaining nut and tighten to 250 Nm (185 ft. lbs.) torque.
c) Install hub and bearing dust cap.
7. 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.).
8. Lower vehicle.
9. Grasp parking 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.
10. Route parking brake cable under carpeting and up to cable hole in console bracket on floor pan.
11. Install parking brake cable into console bracket (Fig. 80). Once installed, be sure locking tabs on cable retainer have expanded out to hold 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.
12. Using a screwdriver (Fig. 81), unlatch the parking 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.
13. Install a NEW park brake cable tension equalizer on park brake lever output cable and rear park brake cables (Fig. 82).
CAUTION: A new retainer (Fig. 83) 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.
14. Install a NEW park brake lever output cable to tension equalizer retaining clip (Fig. 83) on tension equalizer. Cable retainer must be closed and securely latched.
15. Adjust cable tension for parking brake system using following steps:
^ Position parking brake lever so it is in the fully released position.
^ Tighten adjusting nut on parking brake lever output cable until 26 millimeters of thread is out past top edge of adjustment nut (Fig. 84).
^ Actuate parking brake lever to its fully applied position (15 clicks) 1 time and then reposition 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.
16. Check rear wheels of vehicle with parking brake lever fully released; they should rotate freely without dragging.
17. After parking brake cable tension has been properly adjusted, check for free play in parking brake lever. Parking brake hand lever should feel firm at all clicks, with a maximum of 15 clicks of lever travel possible.
18. Install center floor console.
19. Install rear carpeting.
20. Install both rear door sill plate moldings by snapping them onto rear door sills.
21. Install lower rear seat cushion.