shortyscwater17

hey all, i just spent the afternoon replacing the parking brake pedal and the front half of the cable on my 2000 f-150 ext cab because the old one broke on me a few weeks ago. only problem is now it will not engage, there isn't' enough tension to engage the brakes.

i read somewhere that i can tighten up the cables by removing a rubber grommet and adjust some star screw, but i do not know the location of this grommet and bit. can anyone help? thanks in advance.

otto457

Look on the inner side of the rear brake housing. You'll see the slot.

M&D

The parking brake is self adjusting. Your adjusting the shoes through that slot (you can just stick a flatblade in there and adjust up/down). Jack it up, and spin the wheel, you want a very SLIGHT drag on the shoes basicaly where you can just hear/feel them engaging with no pressure on the brake pedal.

Do that and drive it/engage the parking brake a few times and it should be good.

shortyscwater17

with my old parking brake it would have to put a bit of force behind the pedal in order for it to engage all the way. this new one i can push it in by hand with no effort. is there a way to tighten up the cable?

shortyscwater17

bump**

serranot

The parking brake is *not* self-adjusting. You must manually adjust it.

M&D

I find that hard to believe. But I thought these were drum brakes then I realized they are probably the disc with drum e brake? If so I havent worked on those so I could be wrong.

serranot

That is according to the service manual. If you have the discs, there is nothing to adjust the drums.

M&D

Well ya if you have disc only then theres nothing to adjust except the cable itself. If it has a drum only there is shoe adjustement and it should have a self adjusting e brake. If its a hybrid disc/drum then im not sure.

me1234

I thought they were self adjusting and tightened everytime the truck was put into reverse and the regular brakes were applied. I could be completely wrong though I havent had any issues(or manually adjusted) mine.