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Hello there,
sorry you've had to wait so long for a reply...
I am no expert on this, however i can give you a few basic pointers on this issue.
Two access the area inside the center section where the e-brake is... you have two options...
1. remove the smal peice of paneling with the "brissles" on it directly surrounding the e-brake itself... and have a small area to work with around the ebrake. This is easy, 1 screw, and takes less than a few minutes if you're handy. Feel your hand in front and underneath of the ebrake lever... around the ebrake surround panel there, and you'll find a screw. remove it, and then pull the surround panel forward and then off of the ebrake lever, and you should be able to see in there a little better with a flashlight... you may be able to see the problem / fix the problem through this hole... but if not..
2. You can remove the ENTIRE center section from the car, and have yourself a ton of room to work on the ebrake from all angles. There are 5 screws in this process... and it's more diffucult and could take you up to 30min to an hour, just to remove the section. In the front of the driver and passanger areas... about where your knees hit the center section of the dash... you'll notice two circles indented low on the inside of the enter of the dash. You can see them the easiest way by opening the driver or passanger door, and looking straight into the car, at the center dash section, around the ashtray / stereo on the side. POP the circles out, and it will reveal screw. Remove them both, one on each side. Then in the back of the car, where the back of the center section meets the floor, peel back the carpet there and feel around, and you will find two bolts, in the same configuration as the front. One on each side pointing inwards. The rear bolts are less obvious than the front, but if you look hard they will be there. They are under the center section really, under it and a little inside. Once you have these 4 screws removed... make sure the ebreak lever is raised...pry out your window switchpack and unclip the wires... then lift the center section out slowly... being mindful of any other wire harnesses that are still attached (sometimes a light harness) and also be careful when you move the center section around the ebrake lever, don't move it side to side too hard. So, you should be done now... looking at all the spare change that has fallen in between the seats and center section. I found a ton :)
With this view, the job is simple...
Once you had them removed... the ebrake lever itself is attached to the car by a simple hinge... if no cables were connected to it, i think it would move around rather freely. But when you put the proper tension on the cables, it stiffens up.
If you're looking at the ebrake with the entire center section removed, you can see that there are two cables that come from the rear brakes, coming at the ebrake lever from the rear... out from underneath the floor capreting...
They come at the ebrake from the rear left and rear right... sort of at an angle...
and when they get to the ebrake, they each run through their own large curved guide section... which are mounted under the ebrake and look like large half-circles of black metal.
The cables come up around the backside of the lever again, and run into these hex bolt looking ends. Which are used to adjust the tension on the cable.
When you are lookin at this, it's very simple, and it will be painfully obvious what you have to do. You need to turn the hexbolts clockwise to tighten them while the ebrake is in the halfway up position... or that's how i did it anyways...
when i pulled up the rest of the way, i could feel how much tighter i had gotten the lever.
Mine still moved around a bit, and sometimes it wouldn't properly fall back down to hit the switch to turn off the brake light on the dash... but it was much better than it was.. and all i had to do was tighten the cables.
In my case, one of the cables had become so loose, it had fallen out of the track on the ebrake lever. it was pretty simple to figure out, and i'd never done it before...
let me know if you are going to attempt this on your own... i could answer questions if you have any. e-mail me
-gavin
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