A little Help.....Brake issue

William81

I have an 06 Ford Escape that I bought 8 years ago today. Been a great little vehicle. It sat in the drive for approx 12 days as I ended up in the hospital for a few days recently and it has not been driven.


The Parking brake is locked up and will not release. It sat on the drive with the parking break on (Manual Transmission)

Where do I start ??????

perry shooter

is the latch what is stuck or is the hand /foot petal to engage it working or is the brake shoes frozen to the disk

EDIT 1 Ok William lets start from the first step Prented you are driving the car and pull up with foot on clutch and take the car out of Gear cut off the engine you want to SET the hand brake I am guessing by you last post you normally pull up om the hand brake and you hear a number of CLICKS "this is the latch ratchet going across each tooth . Now you come back to the car at a later time and want to drive it away There is some kind of release lever but you need to take the strain off the ratchet. if you set the handbrake really hard then you need to put one Hand on the hand brake & the other on The release leaver Now at the same time you pull the release lever with one hand pull up slightly to take the load off the ratchet Then release the Hand brake while holding the release lever
in the release position

William81

The hand brake is hard to pull up.....it will move but pulls real hard

grumpygy

Are you applying the foot break when You try to release the hand brake. They should be tied together.

320090T

Your cable is rusted up. If, after making sure the lever or foot pedal is indeed releasing, it is rusted up then take a propane torch to the cable under the car and start heating. It should release but if it doesn't it is bolt cutter time, and either way, new cables. Been here, done it.

William81

quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
Are you applying the foot break when You try to release the hand brake. They should be tied together.



Yep applying the foot and parking brake hard at the same time made it break loose...THANKS

William81

quote:Originally posted by 320090T
Your cable is rusted up. If, after making sure the lever or foot pedal is indeed releasing, it is rusted up then take a propane torch to the cable under the car and start heating. It should release but if it doesn't it is bolt cutter time, and either way, new cables. Been here, done it.



Agreed....New cable is the next thing on the agenda.....thanks for the input

TooBig

now get under it and lube the brake cable and hope for the best

tneff1969

Check your rear brake visually, in 2006. The Escape came with rear disc and drum brakes, make sure which you have. We had to replace the drivers side cable on my wife's 2006, it did the same thing. Evidently, the cables are not the same depending on which rear brake type you have.

mango tango

quote:Originally posted by William81
quote:Originally posted by 320090T
Your cable is rusted up. If, after making sure the lever or foot pedal is indeed releasing, it is rusted up then take a propane torch to the cable under the car and start heating. It should release but if it doesn't it is bolt cutter time, and either way, new cables. Been here, done it.



Agreed....New cable is the next thing on the agenda.....thanks for the input


Sometimes the cables can be lubricated, if they are not damaged.

john w

clamp a set of vice grips on the frozen cable as close to the backing plats as you can. Hammer on the vice grip in and it should release