Anyone know how to adjust the ebrake on the tC to be tighter and engage much faster?

 

pop off the center console piece around the ebrake. the adjusting screws are down there

 

Thanks.

 

Take off the rear wheels (Jack the car up, do NOT pull the ebrake) - on the brake rotors and drums themselves you will see a little rubber grommet. Pull that off, and using a flathead screwdriver feel inside there - there should be a little latch that you can flick up and down. Flick it upwards until you cannot turn the wheel anymore. then flick it down 2 clicks - that should be tighter as you want it to be.

 

haha, trying to do some mad tyte doriftos yo?

 

i probably want to do this too... do we adjust the rotor flicker or the screws inside the console!?

 

Bump with pics!!! I'd like to know which also. on the console or on the rotor...

 

Am I missing something??, we have disc brakes in the rear. I know wat u mean about adjusting the flicker though, but still just wondering....

 

no, we have disc brakes in the rear

with drums inside the hub

check it out, pretty interesting.

and the question has been answered, pull up on the center console where the gear shift is (take off the shift **** first) then pull up on the center cupholder console where the e-brake lever is (they both just pull up) and you'll see a cable with a bolt attatched to it. tighten the top bolt and pull the e-brake and count the clicks, if it goes down, you're going the correct direction, keep at it until the desired clicks are acheived (to a degree, it will only tighten so much, then you have to expand the pads for the drum brake in the rear)

I like 4 clicks to full lock, I'm picky like that.

 

so this probably makes for easy ebrake sliding if 4 clicks (a few inches up) is full pressure, haha, sweet

 

ok cool, awesome info.....

 

Ok, I'm going to check out the center console. I know how to adjust drums since they have the adjustment screw in the rear, and I know disc brakes have shoes on the inside of the rotor on the back; but I really doubted that there was an exterior adjustment for disc brakes.

Thanks for the info.

 

if you tighten the screw, doesnt that bring the pads closer to the rotor? so like, you are pretty much making the lowest point of the ebrake be where it would be normally at halfway....

isnt this terrible for your brakes/rotors?!?!?!

 

^^ That's why I haven't done that yet. I'm gonna adjust it at the drum itself.

 

exactly

please do a DIY for those of us who have never dealt with calipers/brakes before!!

 

umm no, first off, the e-brake has nothing to do with the pads/rotors, when you are talking about drum brakes, you are referring to the "shoe" and the "drum" or "hub" - the only thing you are doing when you tighten the cable, is just that, tightening the cable, it's still connected to the same pivot point on the drum brake, but the cable is tighter. The cable will stretch over time, so when you pull the e-brake, you are pulling up "slack" before you are pulling the shoes closer to the drum.

It is best to adjust both, starting first at the drum. Tighten the bolt in the drum (WITH THE E-BRAKE PULLED) and spin the rotor by hand, when it's noticeably "dragging" or "stopping" it from free-spinning, the pads are contacting the hub, so back it off ever so slightly. Repeat for the other side.

Then adjust the cable on the inside last. The reason you don't want to *only* adjust the cable inside, is because you're not combating the problem, you are only bandaid'ing it by pulling the cable tight.

 

^^ Good info.

 

Yes, with disc brakes, it's very difficult to damage your rotors. Adjusting the emergency brake shoe will only consist of tightening the cable as mentioned. The pivot point remains the same. Drums on the other hand, can be adjust to catch earlier on the top end of the shoe, bottom end or in the middle depending on how "badly" you center the shoe...haha.


I'm going to check it all out this weekend and see what I come up with.

 

so if we tighten the cable on the inside alot, when the ebrake is down, there is no difference?

but when you pull up the ebrake, it engages much faster and tighter?!

if so, im going to do that.

 

Tightened my cable. Love it. 4 clicks the car doesn't move and 6 I'm locked completely. Check out my other site where I posted the DIY.

http://www.clubsciontc.com/forum_thr...djustment.html