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There is two ways that you can just adjust your emergency brake,
you may not have to replace
them. If you replace them, you will also just have to adjust
both or at least one of these yourself anyways.
Adjust the Emergency Brake in the
rear wheel
This is kinda weird to visualize without having to see it,
and adjust it without seeing how it works. But you can do it.
Well, since you really should take off the caliper and rotor
to see if you need to replace your parking brake, hey it's easy,
it's only two bolts (to take off your caliper), and a few jolts
or hits with a rubber mallet, and the rotor should come off.
But anyways, move the rotor so it matches up with the gear,
as shown in the picture above. You can enlarge that picture.
You may need a flashlight to make sure you can see it. You will
then put in a flat-head screw driver, and move that gear from
down to up to loose it. I hope I don't have that backwards,
but you should be able to tell soon enough, if you do it to
both and do some drive testing. If you know for sure, let
me know.
But here is the gear you will be adjusting. you screw this
to un-tighten your parking brake. You unscrew this gear to tighten
your parking brake.
Here is an"artists rendition" of the setup, how you
can adjust it without taking of the caliper and rotor. It's
actually out of the CD manual, which I hope I don't get in trouble
for taking it out of. Shh!
Adjust the Brake Line
This is the line that goes from your foot break, to your parking
brake. When you are adjusting this, you are adjusting the tension,
or the length of this line.
Near the center of your car, by your exhaust, there is an adjuster
bolt. This is about a 1/4-1/2" Bolt. I don't remember what
size of hex I tried to fit on it, but eventually, you will get
it. If you TIGHTEN this screw, it will tighten shorten the length
of the line, so you will not have to press down (theoretically)
on the foot brake as much.
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