E-brake Question??

truszip · #1 (**permalink**) 07-06-2007, 06:01 PM

Okay - so I replaced all the brake components on the rear of my 97 F350. Hardest part was getting a replacement for the parking brake lever bolt. Of coarse no one had one? So I improvised by using a 1/4"x2" grade eight bolt. Seems to work just fine but now my problem is with the new shoes installed my parking brake goes' right to the floor and even then it's not holding?? With new shoe's would the parking brake need adjusting?? Doesn't make sense as I would think it should be the other way around in that in wouldn't take as much depressing to apply the brakes. Any advice or thoughts appreciated as I'm wondering if maybe I installed something incorrectly. Thanks.

Big Blue 87 · #2 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 07:07 PM

Are the cables free to each wheel ? If one is frozen you will get nothing for a E-brake. The cables are not that expensive.

puddle jumper · #3 (**permalink**) 07-19-2007, 11:19 PM

A bad ebrake peddle assembly may be at falt.I you push on the peddel and the cable does not move its your problem.

PatsPOS · #4 (**permalink**) 07-20-2007, 12:24 AM

tru...something a lot of people overlook when changing brake shoes is adjusting the shoes out until they LIGHTLY drag on the brake drum. Just turn the star wheel up toward the bed with either a brake spoon or a wide common screwdriver.

If that isn't the problem, there's a lot of adjustment at the equalizer bar beside the left frame rail, too.

And, of course, you have a 10-year-old truck in a northern climate...as Big Blue said, it's not uncommon to have a rear e-brake cable that's seized in the sheath.

HTH...
Pat