Short handle E-Brake Options

[95st-celica]

has anyone put a shorter E-Brake handle in? if so where did you get it? pictures would be great...i really want to do this since our stock e-brake handle is soooo damn long.

[silver6gc]

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you guys seriously adjusted your parking brake cables? come on...adjut it the right way...adjust the brakes themselves...its not hard


No idea how to do that. I'm not mechanically smart like that.


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ya. exactly what he said. For drum brakes i know how to tighten. Tighten them on my bro's 5 speed camry. Alot better and keeps the car from moving when e-brake is on. But is there a different e-brake we can get thats aftermarket. That has a leather boot and a carbon like handle.


I have disc brakes all around, so there's another difference, although like Jeunesse told me in his PM, they can still be adjusted. And who makes that e-brake handle? I've got some research to do...

the parking brake on the rear discs is a drum in hat design, its inside the rotor and is very easy to adjust

Actually, adjusting the parking brake cable may be required if it has loosened, has been removed, the brakes changed, etc.

The drum brakes are self-adjusting (after initial installation and adjustment), so if your e-brake handle is not locking properly, it may be the cable which requires adjustment.

It's fairly simple, actually. Remove the centre console to expose the full length of the handle. There will be two nuts -- the top nut simply locks the bottom one into place and ensure the setting does not change. Loosen the top nut, then adjust the bottom nut to the point where the brake is fully engaged at seven clicks. Then tighten the top nut down to lock the setting, and re-install the console.

technically your right, they are designed to self-adjust, but I work on Toyotas for a living...they don't self-adjust as fast as they wear out, especially on older cars with dirty or rusty brake hardware, and he has rear discs anyway. and richee3 already adjusted his cable and still has to pull it up high, so he may just have stretched cables if the brake adjustment doesnt fix it.