The parking brake on my 99 honda civic won’t fully disengage. If you use it when you go to put the lever down it pops back up slightly. Just barely one click and sometimes not even that. I just replaced the rear brake drums, shoes, wheel cylinders, and it was badly needed. I thought that this wo…

Yes, you need them. You need to be able to feel that there’s no brake friction on the wheel after you adjust it. You have to turn them to do that. Are the brake cables nice and free? Are you sure there’s no little bits of cereal, french fries or other matter stuck under there? Disconnect the whee…

The brakes rub slightly, but if I hold down the lever while driving it eventually stays down and isn’t a problem until I accidentally pull it again. I disconnected the cable at the wheels when I did the brakes and nothing seemed amiss. I doubt that there is anything stuck down in the lever, I don’…

Well, you’ll be there, anyway adjusting, so a quick vacuum will be easy. :slight_smile: Just a thought, anyway.

This seems to be a common issue I’ve had it in 2 cars, from what I hear the cable is most likely stretched hopefully an adjustment will solve it for both our sales haha

[image] ondeck: If you are just tightening or loosening a cable why would the back wheels need to be off the ground? Because most people can’t fit under the car.

The hand brake cable adjusting screw on this car is by the hand lever inside the car (under the arm rest, like the OP said). You don’t need to climb under the car to adjust it. The only other way to adjust the cable is to adjust the brake shoes themselves after you pull the drums. The spec on my …

99 honda civic parking brake problem

Maintenance/Repairs

Whitey September 18, 2019, 10:49am 6

Why would a stretched cable make it engage?

I can see why a stretched cable would make it hard to engage the parking brake, but why would it make it engage on its own?

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