Thread: Electronic park brake locked on - local scan tool Help, if possible..

It reportedly can require brute force to release it. Ensure that you can't be hit with the tool that you have through the loop when it releases.

I used a screw driver slotted through loop

Originally Posted by coolum

To explain.

- how much pressure is required to release the cable - I don't want to break the damn thing which would require a costly replacement proceedure.

Steve

Force required is plenty. It will release with quite a bang, you will know when it happens.

I’ve been in this situation. The first time it took far more force than I was comfortable with. I used a carabiner hooked into the loop and I would guess at about 30kg of up force required.

I have been at work (rather have been fishing of course) but thanks for all the great input and hints .. I will get out the beast and give it some attention shortly and hopefully get moving.

The next appointment at the LR specialists is 27th May.. (for other suspension work) This is not to say that LR's breakdown more often than other cars (any Joe can fix a tojo) its just that British offroad know their stuff and everyone wants to use them to fix the vehicles.. they really are great for service and repairs of all LR's.

Thanks again everyone .. I hope the cable doesn't break before the work is done.

The hand brake jams because the brake shoes are not adjusted regularly. Pretty sure you dealer will tell you you need a new actuator unit at a cost of ~$2000+.

If your handy you can remove the actuator unit, unjam it (it's not the brake shoes that actually jam up), reconnect all cabling (that pulling on that wire loop disconnects), adjust your brake shoes so it does happen again and drive on.

There are threads about it all on here somewhere.

Google bodsys brake bible. It shows you how to adjust it.

Originally Posted by Ferret

The hand brake jams because the brake shoes are not adjusted regularly. Pretty sure you dealer will tell you you need a new actuator unit at a cost of ~$2000+.

If your handy you can remove the actuator unit, unjam it (it's not the brake shoes that actually jam up), reconnect all cabling (that pulling on that wire loop disconnects), adjust your brake shoes so it does happen again and drive on.

There are threads about it all on here somewhere.

It seems the common response when you need to release the handbrake manual release is that you need a completely new brake actuator at $2k plus. I had to pull the release the other day when ours locked on after putting up with the occasional screech noise. Watching a youtube video I now understand the mechanism by which it unlatches and the only way to relatch it is to remove the unit, open it up and relatch it and install the unit back in (with new, frshly adjusted shoes). As long as there are no plastic gear fragments left floating in the actuator unit I assume I'd be good to go? Worse case scenario I suppose is I go through all that pain and find the actuator is stuffed and I need a new one .