Adjusting the E-Brake

[BlackenedSVT]

Hey guys. I just need a quick answer. I just did rear brakes on my 02 GT and now the e-brake has rediculous slop. I want to not only adjust it, but make it tight.

How do you adjust the e-brake on a 2002 GT? Thanks


edit: I've been searching through some previous threads on here and I "HEAR" that you can not adjust the e-brake. Which i dont fully believe, as i've taken the center console compartment box apart to access the e-brake and I can see the handle has a toothed selection on it, which leads me to believe it is SOME HOW adjustable.

Not to mention the fact that I just put brand new pads and rotors on the rear and the e-brake is sloppy as hell. It BARELY holds the car and if its a steep hill the e-brake doesn't hold at all. There HAS to be a way to tighten it.

Any help appreciated. thanks

 

[Mustang5L5]

If the pads are brand new then they have not bedded in. It's gonna take some miles to bed the pads and rotors in. WHat that means is some pad material gets transfered to the rotor and impregnated into the surface. Only after this happens do the brakes work correctly.

When i did my brakes, it took a week or so for the e-brake to grab like it did before. I remember setting it on a hill a few times and having the car start to roll on me.

The toothed section on the handle is what locks the e-brake handle in place. The drum-brake foxes used to have an adjusting nut on the center cable but the SN95's do not. The only adjustment is in the calipers themselves. Setting and releasing the e-brake with your foot of the service brake will adjust them, but like i said before if the brakes are brand new it will take a little time to bed them in

 

[invertmast]

i've got the same problem on my 96.. Brakes aren't new and it barely grabs..

 

[BlackenedSVT]

yeah it has to be adjustable somehow....i'll have to ask mike