Get underneath your 1974 to 1983 or years 1988 to 2005 Pontiac Grand Prix to adjust the parking brake. Make this simple adjustment to help with the safety of your car when you notice the parking brake does not hold the car on a slope. Save yourself time and money, avoiding the mechanics shop and doing the adjustment at home. Tackle this simple project and feel a great sense of accomplishment.
Pull up on the parking brake lever by hand until it clicks two times. Raise your Pontiac Grand Prix rear wheels in the air using your jack. Support the back wheels using your two jack stands.
Get underneath the vehicle and locate the wire cables that come from each rear wheel. Locate the equalizer plate that brings the cables together.
Use your pliers to hold on to the cable that feeds through the equalizer. Then rotate the adjuster nut with your wrench or other pliers. This adjusts the parking brake tension.
Turn the adjuster nut with your pliers until there is tension when spinning the left rear wheel backwards. The back rear wheel should not spin forward at this time.
Lower your Pontiac Grand Prix using the jack and remove the jack stands from each rear wheel. Pull up on the parking brake lever until the desired ten to twelve clicks happens.
Apply the parking brake to 10 clicks and then release. Repeat five times. Turn your car on and verify the parking brake light is off.
Raise your car using the jack and jack stands. Turn the equalizer on the parking brake cables underneath your car. Use your pliers to turn this until the wheels brake starts dragging.
Back off the equalizer one full turn. Apply the parking brake and verify the wheels do not turn. Release the parking brake and verify the wheels turn freely.
Lower your car using the jack and remove the jack stands.
