Ok,

I'm obviously an Idiot...

I've recently changed all of my brakes... however my e-brake... is loose... like it won't lock down at all. I did everything right my brakes work fine. I'm just lost as to why this is happening. It was happening LONG before I changed my brakes too.

I've searched and can't find an "Brakes for Idiots" post on here...


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search....been asked lots of times...its also really easy to do.

or, just look at how it works. if you just think about it, its pretty obv ious what you need to adjust.

wow...i think i'm on here too much...i'm turning into the @!#$ senior members, haha

Jeremy Jones wrote:

I've searched and can't find an "Brakes for Idiots" post on here...

I did search. I can't find any posts when I search "loose e-brake" "e-brake" "adjust e-brake" "tighten e-brake"..... or any of those options swapping out e-brake with "brake" and i've even tried break incase someone screwed that up...

Trust me... I've searched quite extensively.


For Sale : 2005 Cavalier LS Sport. Sunroof, XM, Power, 75k Miles asking $5200 obo. Text or call 731-441-5203

ok, well, take your wheel off, take your drum off, and at the bottom connecting your 2 shoes is a little sprocket looking thing threaded into some other metal piece. pretty much, turn the sprocket up a bit, try putting the drum on, and spinning it and then apply the e-brake. adjust further as needed.

good?

that's all i did. and n ope, never looked it up, and have no clue what any of that stuff is called...i think its some word that translates to a whales vagina...