Stretched e-brake cable?

[COS80]

2 major points of failure are the bell cranks - steel part in an alloy casing gets all metallurgical and seize:




Also, the equaliser can seize which means you're only getting braking to one wheel

I rebuilt my entire hand brake / ebrake with all new genuine parts, adjusted as per manual, and my brakes still sucked. So I modified. Upgrades I have done is install the longer modified dog bones, such as these:

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And the Superior Engineering hand brake mod:




Hand brake is now excellent

Super helpful, thank you! I've never worked on anything but disk brakes. My bellcranks move freely. Did you put the Superior kit on top a new cable, or the old/original one? Does Toyota offer a rebuild kit, or does it have to be cobbled together part-by-part (I'm looking, but I don't see a kit like in the video).

 

[High Lander]

Yes, new cable, new everything pretty much except for the hubs. All OEM Toyota from Partsouq, except for the spring kit which was Karsons:

 

[COS80]

My equalizer must be shot... the right brake bellcrank stop is unseated, but not the left, and I just adjusted them today.

 

[BTLSHP]

My equalizer must be shot... the right brake bellcrank stop is unseated, but not the left, and I just adjusted them today.

Ugh! I have similar problem. I don't know how it was addressed. I was checking hub temperatures while picking up parts at my local Lexus dealer and a tech walked up and introduced himself as an 80 Series owner and then went under the car for a few minutes. He came out a few moments later an told me to take tension off the cable at the over per the FSM when I got home. With that my problems in that part of the system were a thing of the past and the remaining adjustment was to the Starwheel.

My sense is the cable system is petty well thought out to equalize tension.

 

[BTLSHP]

Ugh! I have similar problem. I don't know how it was addressed. I was checking hub temperatures while picking up parts at my local Lexus dealer and a tech walked up and introduced himself as an 80 Series owner and then went under the car for a few minutes. He came out a few moments later an told me to take tension off the cable at the over per the FSM when I got home. With that my problems in that part of the system were a thing of the past and the remaining adjustment was to the Starwheel.

My sense is the cable system is petty well thought out to equalize tension.

One odd thing about my set-up is on the right the mount on the backing plate for the springs is gone. The tech did not think that was a problem and used holes elsewhere for the springs.

 

[COS80]

Ugh! I have similar problem. I don't know how it was addressed. I was checking hub temperatures while picking up parts at my local Lexus dealer and a tech walked up and introduced himself as an 80 Series owner and then went under the car for a few minutes. He came out a few moments later an told me to take tension off the cable at the over per the FSM when I got home. With that my problems in that part of the system were a thing of the past and the remaining adjustment was to the Starwheel.

My sense is the cable system is petty well thought out to equalize tension.

Thank you, that at least helped to reseat the stop on the right.

It still goes up 12+ clicks, though, so there's more to do.

 

[BTLSHP]

Thank you, that at least helped to reseat the stop on the right.

It still goes up 12+ clicks, though, so there's more to do.

Yes, I tweaked mine the other day. I do not know if the measure is 44 pounds of force, but it kicks in at 7-9 clicks.

Sorting my e-brake was monumentally frustrating. Beginning with the right shoes friction material having chipped off and fallen in front of the star wheel.

I think your objective with the cable is zero slack but no tension with the bell crank stop in the set position. From there on it is all the star wheel.

 

[landtank]

Not sure if mentioned but if you have a lift on the truck you should put a 2” spacer at the crossmember where the e-brake cable bolts to. You need to add some slack for things to work properly.

 

[COS80]

Not sure if mentioned but if you have a lift on the truck you should put a 2” spacer at the crossmember where the e-brake cable bolts to. You need to add some slack for things to work properly.

Thats a great point. I don't think I have that.

 

[COS80]

The reason for the "out-of-round" feeling just hit me... I forgot to install lugnuts on the rotors.

 

[BTLSHP]

The reason for the "out-of-round" feeling just hit me... I forgot to install lugnuts on the rotors.

That will be part of it, but any shoe/drum contact going in one direction (?reverse) will slight expand the brake. IME