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Adjusting E brake

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#1 ·
1995 hb 4x4 2.4l

I have adjusted the cable on the passager side to the max and my park brake still wont hold the truck. Very lose easy to pull out, I have backed up so many times trying to adjust brakes also. So is there another adjust for the e brake that im missing? It has new pads on it so I know the pads are not wore.
 
#5 ·
Did you replace the rear shoes or did someone else do it? For the self adjusting mechanism to work, everything has to be working smoothly beneath the drum. It's not a perfect system even at the best of times.

The last time I had my drums off, I removed pretty much everything except the wheel cylinder. I put Never-Seize on everything and made sure the adjusting stars were turning freely. It worked great after that (my e-brake had been acting in a similar way to what you described).
 
#6 ·
And I'll add to the above that the drum brakes have to be set "in the ballpark" for the self adjusters to work in the first place. An overly loose setting sometimes won't let the whole self-adjusting thing to work at all.