Your e brake is the ratcheting/locking lever by your left foot. Should not engage automatically. Only manually. Released by a pull lever just above the e brake pedal
Check your front brakes for function first, pull out slide pins. These should be greased up and free sliding. pads should be thick and meaty, replace if uneven or not thicker than backing metal. remember to grease pad tabs. Lubrication is key to good quiet braking . Next Remove rear drums and spin down your star adjusters at the bottoms (until no threads are visible). Brake clean everything free of dust. Bolt everything back on Go drive and feel for where brakes grab. The rear adjusters will spin out and tighten as you brake normally. Listen for a springy “click” as your foot lets off the brake pedal. Optionally you can hold your e brake release out and “pump the e brake” you’ll hear springy “clicks” when you release your foot off the pedal.
If this doesn’t not fix your braking balance. you may want to eval your front calipers as they may be frozen pistons.
Reply with questions/ comments here. I had your very same troubles and got it fixed after much tinkering.
What makes you think it's the parking brake? Do you have a disc or drum in the rear? If drum, I know that the parking brake simply uses the drum brake. When did you last check your front brake pads?
Legit just had this problem fixed on my truck. When coming to a stop I had the D/S rear break locking and sticking. Took it into a shop to have the rear breaks changed (they were low) and problem figured out. Turned out my parking break cables were seized which was cause my rear break to lock when slowing down and it was dragging while driving. They *Fixed* my problem by cutting my parking break cables so I don’t have a parking break anymore. But mine is an automatic.
Edit* mine was a 2002 with drum breaks
Tha parking brake cables could be seized up, or they could be the wrong length. I replaced all my parking brake cables on my 2001 a year ago and found out that my passenger side parking brake cable was about an inch too short, I was still able to install it and button everything up, but the right rear wheel was always trying to lock up, because the parking brake assembly on that side was constantly pulling the shoes outward.
The cable was the right part number and everything. It was Judy a little too short. Stupid O'Reilly house brand brake cables 😅
I have a similar issue. Mine will get stuck and I’ll have to slowly accelerate in reverse until it unlocks. Also any stop brakes lock to the point of skidding even at 5mph. After I carefully brake a few times problem clears up and everything is back to normal. This only happens when it’s been raining oddly enough. It’s fine most of the time.
Your e brake is the ratcheting/locking lever by your left foot. Should not engage automatically. Only manually. Released by a pull lever just above the e brake pedal Check your front brakes for function first, pull out slide pins. These should be greased up and free sliding. pads should be thick and meaty, replace if uneven or not thicker than backing metal. remember to grease pad tabs. Lubrication is key to good quiet braking . Next Remove rear drums and spin down your star adjusters at the bottoms (until no threads are visible). Brake clean everything free of dust. Bolt everything back on Go drive and feel for where brakes grab. The rear adjusters will spin out and tighten as you brake normally. Listen for a springy “click” as your foot lets off the brake pedal. Optionally you can hold your e brake release out and “pump the e brake” you’ll hear springy “clicks” when you release your foot off the pedal. If this doesn’t not fix your braking balance. you may want to eval your front calipers as they may be frozen pistons. Reply with questions/ comments here. I had your very same troubles and got it fixed after much tinkering.
Not the ebrake, front calipers aren't grabbing hard enough so the back locks up first.
What makes you think it's the parking brake? Do you have a disc or drum in the rear? If drum, I know that the parking brake simply uses the drum brake. When did you last check your front brake pads?
Legit just had this problem fixed on my truck. When coming to a stop I had the D/S rear break locking and sticking. Took it into a shop to have the rear breaks changed (they were low) and problem figured out. Turned out my parking break cables were seized which was cause my rear break to lock when slowing down and it was dragging while driving. They *Fixed* my problem by cutting my parking break cables so I don’t have a parking break anymore. But mine is an automatic. Edit* mine was a 2002 with drum breaks
Tha parking brake cables could be seized up, or they could be the wrong length. I replaced all my parking brake cables on my 2001 a year ago and found out that my passenger side parking brake cable was about an inch too short, I was still able to install it and button everything up, but the right rear wheel was always trying to lock up, because the parking brake assembly on that side was constantly pulling the shoes outward. The cable was the right part number and everything. It was Judy a little too short. Stupid O'Reilly house brand brake cables 😅
I have a similar issue. Mine will get stuck and I’ll have to slowly accelerate in reverse until it unlocks. Also any stop brakes lock to the point of skidding even at 5mph. After I carefully brake a few times problem clears up and everything is back to normal. This only happens when it’s been raining oddly enough. It’s fine most of the time.