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I have too much slack in my parking brake. I was changing my rear drum brakes, when I was having some difficulty reattaching my parking brake line to the parking brake lever. Somehow I ended up pushing on the line, and I ended up being able to pull out about another 2 inches of slack. Now my parking brake won't engage, I can't fix it by turning the adjuster located at the parking brake handle because it's still loose at its max setting.

It's a 99 Saturn SC2.

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Its possible the cable got pushed out of the equalizer bar. Check cable connections on both ends of the cables, inside the drum and the equalizer bar. Also be sure the parking brake bar inside the drum is installed properly.

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