Get underneath your 1974 to 1983 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.
This process does not require tools.
Make Parking Brake Adjustments
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.
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