Parking Brakes

[steve stack]

When a 4 or 6 inch lift is installed, what becomes of the parking brake? I just installed a 6 inch lift on a first gen Blazer and had to disconnect the parking brake because the cables are too short. I don't want to loose the functionality of the parking brake, but I'm not too sure what to do. Any suggestions?

[JIMs70GMC]

I was thinking of moving all the brackets to the bottom of the frame but the rear yoke of the transfer case poses a problem. I was thinking of installing rear disc and putting a driveline brake on the rear of the transfer case. The only other thing I can think of is to move the brackets rearward and adjust the ebrake for more slack.

[4x4Poet]

I've never examined a Blazer's e-brake cable closely, so I have an opinion based upon my burb's e-brake cables.

Look at the adjustment rod to see how many threads are left. That is your potential adjustment available. If the threaded rod does not have enough adjustment available, you need a longer rod or a longer rear hoop inner wire rope assy. But that's the less troublesome area that probably should be left alone.

The larger concern is the E-brake cable housings coming from the backing plates to the rear E-brake dual frame brackets. If they are too stretched at full droop, you have to use longer rear E-brake housings, either custom made or from another application. Longer housings with also longer inner wire rope assys would like be all the change you'd need since the longer housings would stretch from the backing plate to the rear frame bracket at full droop and the inner wire ropes would reach the oem rear hoop assy ends so the adjustment rod would then have to only move within oem specs.