ok so yeh i know some of you are gonna be laughing and i don't blame ya lol....... i tried to do a burnout the other day and i ran into a little problem...... i pulled the ebrake and hit the gas and it kinda just went forward it didn't hold it still or notin... im think my ebrake cable isn't tight enough from my last brake job or some thing............. or its just cuz a neon has no ***** under the hood...... what do you guys think......
and if it is the ebrake cable any one know how to tighten it up ???

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If you can pull the e-brake and it gets tight to the point where you can't pull it up any more and its not hitting the console, then the cable does not need to be tightened. Could be a loose cable, worn ebrake components. Mine does the same thing, but yet it will hold the car on a hill. I plan on doing a full rear brake job in the spring: replace both slaves, new pads, drums, and brake parts.

 

yeh it pulls tight without hitting nothing and it holds the car without moving while in gear........ just not if i slam the gas lol
o well i guess doin burnouts won't be some thing that will happen any time soon.

 

mine is similar although I never tried to do burnouts, tires are too expensive. Try replacing all the parts in the rear brakes, they are probally old, thats what I am gonna do.

 

depending how much it is.. i don't wanna drop alot of money in this car if im going for the srt-4...... need all the cash i get to save up for that lol

 

shouldn't be that bad maybe $50-$75, I haven't priced them yet.

 

There really is no need to replace the rear brakes. Save your money. The rear brakes on a Neon only do 10 to 15 percent of the stopping. The front brakes are the ones you need to watch. There is an adjustment screw for the rear brakes that may be stuck(it's supposed to self adjust). I think ebrake problems lie within the cable more than the drums or pads.

 

Read it again, I was just telling him what I was gonna do, I need new drums and pads soon. I was telling him to replace the ajusters and other mechanical parts in the rear brakes that might be hanging or binding. If the cable moves smoothly then the cable should be good.

 

heheh man that is funny my little neon is sweet but i got some stuff done to it i can slam the gas and do a burn out... sitting still or if i am rolling at 20mph i used to race my blue neon r/t on rally tracks so my ebrake is toasted and i need to get new back brakes

 

yeh well i got the base model so i wasn't expecting much out of it.... tbh
but ya know i had to try it at the least..... o well
back to saving for that srt-4 again......