Removal and Installation
WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2005 Mercury Montego, 2005 Ford Freestyle, and 2005 Ford Five Hundred. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.
- Relieve the parking brake cable tension. For additional information, refer to PARKING BRAKE CABLE TENSION RELEASE .
- Remove the 3 parking brake cable bracket bolts from the subframe.
- To install, tighten to 12 Nm (9 lb-ft).
- Disconnect the intermediate cable from the front cable at the cable-to-cable union.
- Release the intermediate cable from the body bracket.
- Release the intermediate cable from the rear RH cable at the cable-to-cable union.
- Release the LH rear cable from the at the intermediate cable conduit equalizer.
- Remove the wireform bracket bolt on top of the subframe and remove the intermediate parking brake cable.
- To install, tighten to 18 Nm (13 lb-ft).
- To install, reverse the removal procedure.
- Inspect the parking brake system for correct operation.