Cable Installation

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 support plate. Be sure locking tabs on cable retainer are expanded to ensure park brake cable is securely held in the support plate.

NOTE: The park brake cable routing and routing brackets are different on the right and left side of the vehicle. Be sure the correct routing brackets are installed on the correct side of the vehicle. The routing brackets will ensure the correct routing of the park brake cable for the side of the vehicle it is installed on.

3. Install the 2 park brake cable routing brackets on the right or left side rear frame rail. Install and securely tighten routing bracket attaching bolts.
4. Install the park brake cable on the park brake actuating lever of the trailing brake shoe.
5. Install hub/bearing assembly on rear spindle. Then install a new rear hub/bearing assembly retaining nut. Torque hub/bearing assembly to spindle retaining nut to 250 Nm (185 ft. lbs.).
6. Install hub/bearing assembly dust cap, using a soft faced hammer.
7. Install rear brake drum on hub/bearing assembly.
8. Install rear wheel and tire assembly on vehicle. Tighten all wheel stud nuts in crisscross pattern to one-half specified torque. Then repeat pattern, fully tightening stud nuts to 129 Nm (95 ft. lbs.).
9. Lower vehicle.
10. 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.

Park Brake Cable Installed In Console Bracket:

11. Route park brake cable under carpeting and up to park brake cable hole in console bracket on floor pan. Then 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.
12. Install the routing bracket holding park brake cables to the floor pan of the vehicle.

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.

Output Cable To Equalizer Retaining Clip:

13. 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.

Park Brake Cable Tension Equalizer:

14. Install a NEW park brake cable tension equalizer on the park brake lever output cable and rear park brake cables.

Cable Retainer Installed On Tension Equalizer:

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.

15. 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.
16. Adjust cable tension for the parking brake system using the following steps.
^ Position parking brake lever so it is in the fully released position.

Park Brake Lever Output Cable Adjustment:

^ On vehicles with REAR DRUM BRAKES, tighten the adjusting nut on the parking brake lever output cable until 12 mm of thread is out past top edge of adjustment nut.

Parking Brake Adjustment (Rear Disc Brakes):

^ On vehicles with REAR DISC BRAKES, tighten the adjusting nut on the parking brake lever output cable until 26 mm of thread is out past top edge of adjustment nut.
^ Actuate the parking brake lever to its fully applied position (22 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.

17. Check the rear wheels of the vehicle with the park brake lever fully released, they should rotate freely without dragging.
18. 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 21 clicks of lever travel possible.
19. Install the center console back in the vehicle.
20. Install the 2 screws attaching the front of the center console.
21. Install screws attaching rear of center console assembly to console bracket.
22. Install the shifter boot or PRNDL plate back in the center console.
23. Install the shift knob on the shifter.
24. Install rear carpeting.
25. Install both rear door sill plate scuff moldings, by snapping them onto rear door sills.
26. Install lower rear seat cushion. Be sure lower seat cushion is fully installed in retainers on floor pan of vehicle.