emergancy brake release on its own
 

Sometimes my emergency brake will release after sitting just 10-15secs. It only does it everyone and then, I can put the e brake on and it immedilly pops off sometimes. What do I need to do. Is this the pc that I need to tighten or what?<br><br>

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still hopeing someone can help me out on this. :-[

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I'll stab at it.<br><br>The piece in the picture is what you'd tighten if you pushed the emergency brake in(and it stayed) but the brakes weren't grabbing.<br><br>I think you're saying your pedal isn't staying put, for that you'd have to adjust something up by the pedal I believe.<br><br><br>phox<br><br>

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Thank you phox

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Should the pedal actually stay down when the brake is on?<br><br>Mine just springs back... but the brake is actually on..<br><br>To quite the guy from Circuit City &quot;Thats just fawkin weird!&quot;<br><br>and ill have to agree

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OK, you made me run out to the parking lot to look. (boy is it cold)<br><br>Mine is the same way, you push it down and it springs back up. ::) I think they did this to eliminate the pedal hitting your leg when it releases. :) (that's my guess) [undecided]<br><br>DB

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CH you are not alone.
This has happened to others.
Check this thread from &quot;The Other Site&quot; ;)

&quot;Parking Brake Released Itself&quot;

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On my truck the lever goes down and comes back up, On 2000's and up it stay's down. Not sure of the 03's.

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I don't think CH is taking about the pedal position, but rather some are reporting of the emergency brake releasing by itself after parking and setting the brake.

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What I meant to say is:<br>I push the pedal in<br>The brake comes on<br>As I jump out of the truck I hear the brakes release,ONLY if the truck is idling in neutral<br>Then the truck rolls<br>causing me to have a heart attack<br><br><br>....Priceless <br> ;D ;D ;D<br><br>

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[quote author=Shovelhead link=board=5;threadid=7260;start=0#71473 date=1038065063]<br>I don't think CH is taking about the pedal position, but rather some are reporting of the emergency brake releasing by itself after parking and setting the brake.<br>[/quote]<br><br>You hit her on the nose, SH ;D<br><br>Thats whats happening

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I think there is a spring on the release mechanism you need to check. it may be weak or broken.

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I had my truck pop out of low gear while on vacation this summer on the Frio river in a camp ground. The dern thing was sitting there for about 10-15 minutes before it decided to go on a joy ride by itself. I had been parking the same way for the past 2 days and nothing happened. Well it rolled down a little hill and went up a little embankment and bumped into someones trailer. It just made a little dent in his trailer, and no one was hurt (thank god), but that little dent cost my insurance about 8 grand ::). I looked at it and even took lots of pictures of the damage, it wasnt much, just some superfisal dents, no frame damage or nothing. Oh well stuff happens. My insurance went up about 50 bucks because of that. Oh well, Chris

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yea, I think dodge might have done something well. The e-brake pedal on my SS left a HUGE nasty looking scrape on my leg once... it wasnt fun =(<br><br>How many automatic people put their truck in park and use the e-brake?

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Imagine the look on the cows faces when they see CH walk away from the truck ... turn ... &quot;Ooohh S$h111tt !&quot; ... and run to catch his rig !! [laugh] [laugh]<br><br>PISTOL