Your emergency break will move without any resistance and will not hold your car in place when stopped.
There should be a lever down by the brake pedal. it will look kind of like a gear with a tab on it. that lever releases the parking brake. just be careful not to let the parking brake pedal smack you in the face....
mines just snapped so its definitely cable....
Well, I know the Cherokee is not the same, however, the basics are... There is a "cable/wire" underneath coming from the area of the brake handle that goes back to where your rear brake drums are. That cable goes inside the drum.... On my jeep that cable was rusted and just snapped when I pulled it and just did'nt work anymore... I found out while I was changing the brakes in the back that the problem was there. You can buy that cable. Hope it answers your question, if not let me know, I will look into it for you. I love the Jeeps!
You can tell by how much higher the clutch pedal is to the brake pedal. when new pedals are at the same height.
There is no brake cable on your bike
The Otis elevator brake was built to suspend the car safely in the shaft if an elevator cable snapped. Otis started experimenting on how to make the brake by placing a wagon spring above the hoist platform. Then, he attached a ratchet bar to the guide rails on the sides of the hoistway. The lifting rope was next fastened to the wagon spring so that the weight of the hoist platform held just enough tension on the spring to keep it from touching the ratchet bars. However, if the cable snapped, the tension would be released from the spring. It would then immediately engage the ratchets, preventing the platform from falling.
Really ain't no fixing a brake cable. Replace it with a new cable.
The emergency brake cable is held in place with swivel nuts on each end of the cable. Turn the swivel nuts to the left. The emergency brake cable will come off.
if your latch just broke, use a vice grip. if the cable itself has snapped, it gets tricker. my 2nd cutlass's cable snapped. i had to lift and jerk the hood manually until it came loose.
the cable is located at the top of the engine behind the throtle body if it is a 4.6L V8.
The throttle cable goes from the 'gas' pedal to the carburetor or throttle body to control the speed of the engine. On cars the brake cable goes to the emergency brake, on some motorcycles the brake cable goes to the brakes. (The main brakes for cars and some motorcycles are hydraulically operated, not by a cable.)
Check the accelerator cable? It might have snapped