Adjusting E brake

[Brl2005]

I need to adjust more tension on my E brake. Does the rotor need to be removed to do this? Or is there access from behind? I looked and only saw where the cable hooks up.
Thanks, Brian

 

[kad]

There's a small rubber plug on the back of the shield that you pull out to get at the star-wheel adjuster. IIRC from last week when I was doing my brakes, it's on the top on the driver's side and on the bottom on the passenger side.

-K

 

[PrettyMolly]

If you have an automatic, just remove that overpriced parking brake setup...
That is the worst design ever... disk brakes + drum brakes on the same axle??? So you have to buy the pads for disk brakes at $30-$50, and then the stupidly overpriced shoes for the outdated drum brakes.
I have an automatic, and removed the parking brake from behind the rear rotors, and only have to worry about the brake pads now.

 

[Black W900]

If you have an automatic, just remove that overpriced parking brake setup...
That is the worst design ever... disk brakes + drum brakes on the same axle??? So you have to buy the pads for disk brakes at $30-$50, and then the stupidly overpriced shoes for the outdated drum brakes.
I have an automatic, and removed the parking brake from behind the rear rotors, and only have to worry about the brake pads now.

Don't do this.

 

[fastf]

I wouldn't do that too you park that truck on a steep incline the transmission jumps out of park you are screwed.