Emergency brake cable on a 2005 echo

**CAUTION** You are working underneath a vehicle with the brakes OFF. Be safe at ALL times.
Make sure the vehicle will NOT roll as you will need to raise the vehicle AND release the E-brake.
Check the basics and silly stuff. Have you released the handle inside the vehicle to the OFF position? Check the routing of the cables all the way from the rear wheels to the connector and from the pull handle to the connector. Sometimes when a cable goes slack it can get hung up on something and not be lined up correctly.
The wheel end of the cable has to work against the springs inside the rear brake drums. These are strong springs so can need a lot of force to move the cable. Is the new connector an adjustable type? Wind it out to it's longest setting.
Sometimes it is a case of pure Brute force to pull the cables together. So BE CAREFUL when you are underneath the vehicle.
Your last option is to slacken the adjusters off at the wheels and the pull lever inside the vehicle to giv you some slack.
**NOTE** If you do this DO NOT FORGET to retighten the adjusters back to their working settings.

Have your rear brakes inspected for excessive wear and to make sure the E-Brake Cable is not broken.

HERE'S A LINK TO YOUR E-BRAKE ADJUSTMENT. Repair Guides Parking Brake Adjustment AutoZone com

If we are talking about the rear brake and it is a drum brake(some have rotors), the drum brake is also your Emergency brake.

The Emergency brake has a cable and it often is self-adjusting. What has probably happened in your car is that the adjuster has tightened up and the OFF position is too tight for the thickness of the new brake material.

The cable winds on a reel in the Emergency brake assembly for those units with self-adjusters. Simple lock-nuts manually adjust the cable on other units.

So what you want to do is unreel the self-adjuster by keeping your fingers clear and pushing a release tab on the Emergency brake cable reel. Or manually back off the manually adjusting lock nuts on the brake cable. You may have to work loose the rust in the pivot at the backing plate.

Once you get the pivot to fully swing into the drum, the adjuster will contract enough for the drum to fit.

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grip the end of the cable with vice grips and give it a pull.

either the rear brakes are extremely worn or the cable has stretched.
first check the rear brakes to make sure there is plenty of pad or shoe left, then follow the parking brake cable forward and you will find a threaded rod and nut configuration where you can take slack out of the cable. some chrysler products had a small parking shoe brake inside the outer rear disc brake, make sure you are checking the right one.

first you need to check the rear brakes ,the emergency brakes work off the rear brakes, there is an adjustment on the center of cable that goes between both rear brakes,hope this is some help,thanks robert b.

Under the center console is a Y in the cable that leads under and around the top/rear side of the brake handle. At the top/rear of the handle is a locknut and threaded shaft to adjust tension.

Be sure to not have any drag on the brakes when you are done adjusting!

iit adjusts by the parking brake pedal

Check the hardware for the drum emergency brake inside the the rear disc brakes, these pads are for your emergency brake, there should be an adjustment bolt that just sits between the two pads. Also, check the cables running to this set of pads to make sure they were connected properly. After you have checked the drum emergency brake, follow the cables in the undercarriage and look for the point at which they combine to another single cable, this is the point where the actual cable pressure adjustment is located.