Parking brake settings

[RamDutyl]

My 2021 has a loose parking brake set up: pedal to the metal and too little grab when on a hil. Who out there adjusts your own emergency brakes?

Do the brake cables come off the arm hook sometimes? Had that happen on a Ford.

Do you raise a wheel and adjust the starwheel or is there a leading cable adjuster under the driver's door?

Do you spin the wheel and see if the drag isn't too bad? I don't think my Tradesman has a Limited slip, so the wheel should turn ok for my drag test, right? Is it best to chock front wheels and jack up both back wheels?

I had the dealership check the parking brake out. Wrench loosened the brakes. Probably would have killed somebody back in the days of manual adjusters and true brake shoes...

 

[GTyankee]

Does the cable in these images SAG ?

There should be star wheel adjusters with a rubber plug in both rear backing plates, a bit of penetrant squirted on the adjusters may work something loose

 

[RamDutyl]

Thanks for the quick response. I'll check that out. I don't see any kind of mid-run adjuster that tightens both cables w/o going to the star wheels. I guess it's engineered to put the pedal to the floor if you use it.

 

[Tach_tech]

Thanks for the quick response. I'll check that out. I don't see any kind of mid-run adjuster that tightens both cables w/o going to the star wheels. I guess it's engineered to put the pedal to the floor if you use it.

If you look where the two cables go to one, there is a nut on a long threaded rod. That’s the adjuster for taking up cable slack. I would start there.