97Ranger3.0
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- Location
- Florida
- Vehicle Year
- 1997
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Type
- 3.0 V6
- Engine Size
- 3.0
- Transmission
- Manual
- 2WD / 4WD
- 4WD
- Total Lift
- 4"
- Tire Size
- 33x12.5
Looking for advice on my parking brake pedal assembly issue for my 97 Ranger. Recently, I noticed that my parking brake pedal skips so I don't have a functional parking brake anymore. When you press in the pedal and get a little bit of tension on the cables, it suddenly skips and pulls your foot practically to the floor, so the parking brake doesn't actually engage. Also, when this happens the parking brake doesn't want to release and I have to push up on the pedal with my foot while I pull the release lever. I snapped some pictures of my pedal assembly compared to my brother's Ranger's assembly and noticed this.
The pedal itself on my truck is a little closer to the trim to the left of it than his, like its cocked at an angle, and the lever that clicks on the teeth as you push the pedal in is very cocked.
If you can't really see it in that first picture, it's more noticeable as you push the parking brake pedal in.
Also, when the release is pulled it often either doesn't release at all, or doesn't release fully. When it doesn't release fully, the lever looks like this.
I can pry it back to fully release the pedal pretty easily though.
For reference, these are pictures of the parking brake in my brother's 96 Ranger. Notice how the lever sits nice and straight even as the pedal is engaged.
And his when it's released looks like this.
I'm curious if anyone else has had this problem or a similar problem before, and how to fix it? I don't see anything else wrong except for the misalignment with the pedal and the lever so I'm not sure what the cause of that is and how to fix it. I'm hoping I might be able to fix it without having to remove it and hoping that I don't just have to replace the whole unit. Any advice? Thanks!
The pedal itself on my truck is a little closer to the trim to the left of it than his, like its cocked at an angle, and the lever that clicks on the teeth as you push the pedal in is very cocked.
If you can't really see it in that first picture, it's more noticeable as you push the parking brake pedal in.
Also, when the release is pulled it often either doesn't release at all, or doesn't release fully. When it doesn't release fully, the lever looks like this.
I can pry it back to fully release the pedal pretty easily though.
For reference, these are pictures of the parking brake in my brother's 96 Ranger. Notice how the lever sits nice and straight even as the pedal is engaged.
And his when it's released looks like this.
I'm curious if anyone else has had this problem or a similar problem before, and how to fix it? I don't see anything else wrong except for the misalignment with the pedal and the lever so I'm not sure what the cause of that is and how to fix it. I'm hoping I might be able to fix it without having to remove it and hoping that I don't just have to replace the whole unit. Any advice? Thanks!