Parking Brake Adjustment; Rear Drum Brake Shoe Adjustment - Chrysler Stratus RHD 1997 Interactive Electronic Service Manual

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ADJUSTMENTS (Continued)

REAR DRUM BRAKE SHOE ADJUSTMENT

NOTE: Unique to this vehicle is a new fully auto-
matic adjusting mechanism (Fig. 181) for the rear
drum brakes. The rear drum brakes used on this
vehicle have no provisions to be manually adjusted
and should not require manual brake shoe adjust-
ment for the life of the linings. Although in the
event of a brake reline, it will require the automatic
adjuster to be reset. After resetting the automatic
adjuster the initial adjustment procedure must be
done prior to driving the vehicle.
Fig. 181 Rear Drum Brake Automatic Self
AdjusterMechanism
REAR DRUM BRAKE INITIAL ADJUSTMENT
PROCEDURE
(1) Be sure parking brake lever is fully
released.
(2) Fully apply the vehicles service brakes 2 to 3
times by depressing the brake pedal as far as possi-
ble. This will cause the automatic adjuster mecha-
nism to correctly adjust the rear drum brakes.
(3) Apply and release the park brake lever one
time after the service brakes have been correctly
adjusted.
(4) This procedure has correctly adjusted the vehi-
cle's rear service brakes.
KNURLED PIN SPRING ADJUSTER MECHA- AUTOMATIC STRUT NISM SELF BENT NAIL ATTACHING SCREWS CENTER CONSOLE PASSENGER SEAT DRIVER SEAT

PARKING BRAKE ADJUSTMENT

This vehicle uses a bent nail type park brake cable
tension equalizer (Fig. 182). The bent nail tension
equalizer it to be used only one time to set the park
brake cable tension. If the park brake cables require
adjustment during the life of the vehicle, a NEW ten-
sion equalizer MUST be installed before doing the
park cable adjustment procedure.
Fig. 182 Bent Nail Park Brake Cable
(1) Remove the 3 screws (Fig. 183) attaching the
rear of the center console.
Fig. 183 Center Console Rear Attaching Screws
ATTACHMENT TO TENSION REAR PARK BRAKE CABLE EQUALIZER CABLE ATTACHMENT TO TENSION PARK
TensionEqualizer
CENTER CONSOLE COVER
BRAKE LEVER EQUALIZER OUTPUT
BRAKES 5 - 71