Rear Brakes / parking brake issue

I have some time off work and decided to replace my rear drum shoes. My truck will hit 80000 miles soon and shoes look like about 25%. Bought some pep boys brake shoes and replaced them. Truck stops normal, but the problem I have is that on a hill the parking brake wont hold my truck. Truck will slowly start to roll. My truck is stick and I need this E brake to work. I didn't have a problem prior to the replacement. I adjusted the brakes till it was a little hard to turn the drum by hand and backed off 3 clicks.No luck, so I tighten it till it was harder to turn by hand and still didn't work. Any ideas what I did wrong or should I put Stealers brake shoes?

 

There should be an adjustment on the cable. Not sure which end but you should find a threaded portion of the cable housing and a bracket that that portion of the cable housing goes through with a jamming nut(s). You will need to lengthen the housing. You could get an idea of where the adjustment is by looking at a parts break down. Check your work installing the shoes to make sure the cables are attached properly.

 

Your cables may be shot... adjusting it is one thing, but if it doesn't deflect when you push the pedal, its no help.

Secondly... allow yourself some time to "bed in" your shoes. When you change shoes, they need time to fit the diameter of the drum. Until that happens, you typically hit the top and bottom of the shoe in the drum. Proper braking is all about surface area in contact with the drum, which you may not yet have. Also remember that the Ebrake uses the rear shoe only, so you don't have a lot of surface area in contact in the first place.

My cables went tits up at 125K, but I see you're in Cali, you may not have salt issues.

 

The adjustment for the cable is under the dash right where the cable hits the foot pedal for the e-brake. Mine did the exact same thing after my first brake job. All you need is a 10mm open end wrench and just tighten the adjustment nut until the foot pedal has some solid tension/resistance back in it then fine tune it by tightening until it causes drag at the wheel and then back off just a hair.

 

there was a recall on some 2nd gen for park break cables maybe check into that to

 

Did you put the shoes in the correct way with the longer lining shoes as the rears? The adjuster for the parking brake cable is under the cup holder in your manual transmission Tacoma, should cable adjustment be needed.

 

A manual doesn't have the cable adjustment at the pedal too ?

 

Manual transmission Tacomas do not have a parking brake pedal, they have the pull-style hand brake, so the short answer is NO.

 

Ooooooohhhhhhh duh ! Lol

 

You did it wrong. The correct way to adjust the rear brake shoes is below as per the service manual:

 

Thanks for advice.Drove my truck in an empty parking lot pulling the e brake to slow my truck. After a few times of doing so I let the drums cool down. Now they seem to work well. I guess I needed to brake them in. FYI the Pep boys brand rear shoes have about half inch less of brake shoe/pad.

 

Could someone please elaborate on this? Pictures maybe? What is the hole plug and where is the adjuster? I have adjusted my parking brake cable, and with the drum off you can see the shoes expand when the park brake is pulled, but it wont hold the truck even on a mild slope.

 

I know this is old, but I stumbled upon this thread and thought I would chime in for anyone looking in the future.

You can adjust the parking brake cable by pulling out your cup holders in the center console. Under the cup holders there is a joint where the parking brake handle splits off into two cables. There you can adjust it with a threaded line and nut.

 

Hello all
Just for the record, if you have a standard cab, bench seat standard transmission model there is NO cup holder unit to remove to access park brake adjuster.
One needs to remove all 4 bolts holding seat unit to the floor, prop the seat front up about 6” (with block of wood)
Reach back on the top of hump and grab and pull carpet forward. now you’ve gotten close, you’ll see a metal plate with three 10mm bolts, remove THAT plate, NOW you’ve finally exposed the adjustment mechanism. A pair of 12mm wrenches will take care of the adjustment
Who’s the rocket scientist who designed that??