Chrysler Repair: Brakes, rear brakes, chrysler town

Question
1999 Chrysler Town & Country Van 3.8/6 Trans type A. 85,000.
Emergency brake light comes on when I round a corner. Also Emer. brake goes to floor (as if broken cable) only intermittenly.
Rear brakes never done, but inspectors claim 40% still left.  

Answer
Hi Allen.
I don't have personal experience with the vans, but it sounds to me like the cable is too loose so that the return action (springs at each rear wheel) is not pulling the pedal up far enough to clear the switch operated by the pedal, thus it self-illuminates when you tilt the vehicle while turning. Usually the rear brakes pad/shoes are self-adjusting, and assuming that they are adjusted, then the fix would be to adjust the cable connection to the rear brakes that has too much slack in it. On most Chrysler designs, the cable from the pedal goes to a threaded eye bar about in the middle of the car where it it attached by an adustable yoke to a sliding 'double cable', which itself is attached at each end to the parking brake lever within the rear brake mechanism (these pivot on the backing plate). There is typically a threaded nut on the eye bar at the yoke which if you tighten it will take the slack out of the system so that the emergency brake will work reliably and the light will no longer flicker "on". Don't overtighten the nut such that the parking brake will drag, just enough to set the brake after about 4 or 5 clicks at the pedal.
This is a d-i-y operation if you want to get under the van with a wrench (probably a 1/2 or 9/16" or the metric equivalent (13 or 14 mm).
Roland