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You will need to jack up one or both rear wheels. Make sure your on level ground and put your arm just behind the rear wheel at the axle and you will feel and see several lines going to the back of the wheel.
One will be a thin steel tube. This one is not the right one.The other one will be a flexible cable going into the plate behind the rear wheel. This is the one that you want.
You should be able to see the cables if you get on the ground under the rear bumper. The cables should run across the axle to each wheel.
Grab it and pull back and forth real hard several times and it should release then do it to the other side. Be careful when you go grabbing. Don't grab anything electrical.
The cables will build up rust over time and cause problems like this. Hope this helps you.
You have to take the tires off remove the drums to release the cable.This will release the brake.But if cable is broken, then it has to be replaced.--------
The shoes are pushed out on to both rear drums . With the shoes pressed against the drums though you are going to need a hammer or a pry bar to pry the drum off of the shoes, possibly doing damage to the shoes.--------------
Try taking a sludge hammer and tap the wheels or drums a few hard taps to see if they break loose. Also, driving the car in forward and/or reverse could break them loose too. If you can put the p-brake handle down, and then hold the release
button in, and it feels like there is free play in the handle if you move it up
and down, chances are the parking brake cables are seized. You have to get
under the car, spray them down with some lube, trying to get the lube in to the
outer casings where the wire cables slides in and out of. Then put a pair of
vise grips on the cable, and try to wiggle the cable in and out of the housing. -------------- This will help.Thanks.Helpmech.
Do all of that, if all else fails then I'd try the pry bar ------------
It needs to be done to both wheels.Take the wheels off and then take the pry bar and pry the drum off of both wheels. I think it will be easiest if you try to pry from underneath the car rather than inside the wheel well.The brake pads and rotors are completely gone or worn out.
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Sometimes this will free them up, but quite often
when this happens you need to replace the cables.
Is the lever pulled to high up or is the safety release jambed?
I apologize as my internet has been lingering on the weather. If it is a case of uncertainty then you need to adjust the brake down by the cables under the car. this usually requires a 10mm wrench and a bit of patients. then once the adjuster is free release the parking brake and readjust it, then adjust the rear brakes at the rear rotor rather then at the lever.
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I think its both. Buttton won't go all the way in and I did pull the lever pretty hard when I was setting it. The car was slightly moving backwards.
Still waiting for an answer. Thanks.
Have not heard from the first expert fpr 3 hours. Can someone else help with this issue.
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Nissan 350z brake won't go down?
I just got a used Nissan 350z yesterday, it's a standard so I'm learning how to do that.
Anyways, my brake is all the way up and won't go down. The button won't even go down on it. I have nooo idea what to do.
1. You have to pull the lever up as you push the button with your thumb.
2. You may have to pull up (HARD) on the lever to get the button to depress.
3. lift slightly while pushing button see if that works if this is a manual shift try and put it in reverse.
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