Some time back I made a lane change on the highway and did not see that, in the road, was a tread belt that had separated from somebody's tire and was left laying there in a pile. As I crossed over .... the tread belt got caught up in the parking brake cable. When it was all over, the front cable had been popped out of the bracket and was hanging VERY low compared to it's usual position. I am now trying to get it back up in place for inspection and it isn't going too well. When I shove the parking brake cable pedal down it goes ALL the way to the floor and puts some but not a lot of tension on the cable underneath.

Any amount of Googling/Searching I do for parking brake cable tension on me leads me to discussions about adjusting the rear parking brake shoes to set cable tension. I am thinking my case is not quite the same as tensioning adjustments needed because of normal cable wear. On alldatadiy , there is a procedure that calls for pulling on the cable from the bottom of the truck until a pair of holes aligns on the control, then inserting a pin through the frame and the take-up spool to hold the tension while you disconnect the cable itself. This has me wondering..... the parking brake cable control: does this thing have a pre-loaded tension of some kind built into IT?? In other words... could the mis-hap I had, have cause the cable to make a jump that went all the way to the control and "released" some tension ing mechanism that NOW has to be corrected?

I ask this because, when I pull the parking brake release.... it's like the pedal doesnt even want to come back up to the top. I can reach under and pull it back up but it does not want to snap back by itself. Also, the dash BRAKE light is now lit full time!

I can not find much information on this brake cable control unit anywhere. Alldata has a procedure to pull it out and it doesn't look bad at all.....so i am wondering if I need to do that... to correct a problem on the control itself.

I hope my description of this makes sense enough that someone might be able to give me an idea what I am looking for here.......

Thanks, in advance, for any assistance.

Bob