New rear pads and rotors, rebuilt calipers. Swapped the e-brake brackets over, bled the brakes, and now I can't get the parking brake cables into the brackets.

I can get one side on, but the other side is too tight. Do I need to loosen or adjust something?

 

The handle inside the car.

 

loosen the adjusting nut on the parking brake handle inside of the car. you will need to remove the mechanism cover and then remove the locking "clip" by sliding it upward and off of the long adjusting nut.

 

Ok, thanks. Will try that. Is this normal, though? I'm guessing maybe someone tightend the cable once the pads started to wear down... Possible?

 

That's a key part. haha

 

Do you mean I need to release the parking brake? WAT WAT WAT!?

 

Yes, you must release the handle, and yes, if you're going to new pads, it's likely that the cable was previously tightened up to compensate for stretch while the car was equipped with pads & disks that were partially worn, and so will now be too tight.

This gets even worse on drum brakes; I'd convinced myself once that the new shoes I'd bought were over-sized... because I forgot to loosen the handbrake cable before installing them.

 

The handle is released, bro. I don't think with the tension it puts on, I'd be even able to take the cable off the calipers in the first palce.

 

One cable is slightly longer than the other. If you had the cables off, you may have switched them. If the one side hooked up easily and the other side not even close, swap them. You will need to take out all of the adjustment in the parking brake to slip the cables back into the hooks.

 

your suppose to slide the ends to the caliper's e-brake hook, then secure the cable to the e-brake cable bracket. not the other way around.

 

Really? Maybe that's why I've had so much trouble attaching them.

 

you need to drink more heines my friend. heines make me very creative. it brings out the boy scout in me lol

 

apparently you missed my first post.. loosen the adjusting nut on the parking brake handle inside of the car. you will need to remove the mechanism cover and then remove the locking "clip" by sliding it upward and off of the long adjusting nut.

 

Yeah, I already got it sorted. No worries.

 

good deal. just wanted to make sure you had some extra info to go by.