How To Install Replace Emergency Brake Cable GMC Jimmy Chevy Blazer 1973-91
Created on: 2010-06-18
Watch this video to learn how to fix your emergency brakes. The experts at 1A Auto will show you how to replace the emergency brake cable on your 83-91 Chevy S10 or Blazer; or GMC Jimmy.
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step 1 :Removing the Brakes
- Loosen the lug nuts.
- Raise the vehicle and remove the lug nuts the rest of the way and remove the wheel.
- Pull of the brake drum.
- Remove the springs.
- Remove the retainer springs while holding the pin on the back.
- Pull the brakes down.
- Remove the emergency brake cable from the brakes.
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step 2 :Removing the Emergency Brake Cable
- Pry the teeth on the cable through the backing plate.
- Cut the cable.
- Hold one end of the cable with vice grips and pull the other end free.
- Push the tabs on the other half of the cable to free it from the bracket.
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step 3 :Replacing the Emergency Brake Cable
- Push the new cable through the backing plate.
- Connect the cable to the brake shoes.
- Hang the brake shoes in place.
- Slide the bracket on.
- Connect the emergency brake cable lines.
- Connect the bracket.
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step 4 :Replacing the Brakes
- Put the adjuster into place.
- Replace the retainer springs.
- Replace the other springs.
- Clean the brake shoes with brake cleaner.
- Replace the brake drum.
- Tighten the brake line by tightening the upper cable in the emergency brake line bracket.
- Replace the wheel and thread the lug nuts.
- Lower the vehicle and tighten the lug nuts the rest of the way. Torque to 100ft/lbs.
Tools needed
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Flat Blade Screwdriver
Channel-Lock Pliers
Jack Stands
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Hi I'm Mike Green, I'm one of the owner of A1 Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing and maintaining your vehicle. I am going to use my twenty plus years experience restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this to show you the correct way to install parts from 1AAuto.com. The right parts installed correctly that's going to save you time and money. Thank you and enjoy the video.
In this video I will show you emergency brake cable replacement on this GMC Jimmy. You will need to raise and secure your vehicle. You will need some various pliers and screwdrivers to do this.
For rear emergency brake replacement on the truck here with drum brakes, the first thing you need to do is remove the rear wheel. Okay after you get your rear wheel off, then pull the drum off. If this is stuck - sometimes if your emergency brake gets stuck it can be stuck to the brake pad, and you can just use a couple of big screwdrivers and you can pry it off easily. Okay here's your brakes and you're going to want to remove these two springs. The longer one is the front one. Now you want to remove these two springs with pins. What you want to do is put your pliers on there, press in, twist and then they come out. Another thing is to note how this bar is that runs from here to here. Then, bend it out and the spring is in the front okay. Actually what you do the next thing is to get this here off and separate the brakes and then your emergency brake cable is basically right here. I'm going to grab onto it and kind of as I'm pulling away. Another thought is that you can just cut these since you're going to replace them anyway. You can just take a good strong pair of wire cutters and cut the cables, and that makes them a whole lot easier to get out and you will see me do it later in the video.
Okay now your cable goes through your backing plate and you just need to those little teeth that are holding and also here the right way to do it is to push the teeth down and pull the cable out but again if you run into trouble you can always just use your screwdriver, break the teeth off and then pull out and you will also see me do that on a later cable that doesn't come out as easy.
Okay so here you can see this is where there's supposed to be a tab holding onto the rear end but that's broken off and somebody has used a piece of wire or coat hanger to hang it up here so you just kind of have to unroute that and I'm just going to cut that. So I'm just going to cut the cable here.
Okay so once you have that cut you can just use a couple pairs of pliers here and put these onto the cable. Okay and the last part of getting it apart is just again three tabs here and it is just easier to just bend these tabs right off. This just goes through here and then it fits in place. You can take this once you have it into the backing plate you can take your cable and run it up and put it together nice and easy and bring it up and around and you kind of hang you brake shoes on there right now and put the other side together like that and then you'll connect in the front. I've got my other side here, put that in okay and this goes up through here. Okay now this bracket goes on and locks into here and I'll take this and put it together and the first time it really pulls just pull that right together and see there it goes. I'm going to cheat a little bit here okay and I'm going to put a regular but on and then a second one which I'll use to lock it when I adjust everything and tighten it up.
When you have the cable hooked up underneath, we can put this together. Okay we need to put this bar on that side okay that's in, put the pin through. Okay the short one goes down here and on there first and the longer one goes right there okay. Brake parts cleaner to get any fingerprints or grease or anything off of the shoes here. Okay you can use either brake parts cleaner or mineral spirits works too. Okay now I am going to put my brake drum back on.
Okay so you can see just after a preliminary tighten I can push the brake down easily with my hand so that means that we've got a lot of tightening to do. Okay so you can see after playing with the brake a little bit there's a lot of slack there in the line so I can just tighten up and get all of that slack out. Okay so to lock it I'm going to put a wrench on here and another wrench to tighten up against it.
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