How to Make Parking Brake Adjustments in a Mercury Villager

You can make parking brake adjustments to your Mercury Villager easily at home to avoid going to the mechanic. Adjust your Mercury Villager parking brakes when your van starts to slip down the hill in park position. Use this technique for models from 1997 to 2000.

Instructions

1

Start your Mercury Villager engine and press on the brake pedal several times while moving the vehicle in reverse. Make sure the parking brake pedal fully releases while the vehicle is in reverse.

2

Stop the van from moving and put the van in park. Turn off the Mercury Villager engine.

3

Raise your vehicle rear wheels in the air using the jack and support both rear wheels using the jack stands.

4

Locate the parking brake cable adjuster and the parking brake cables underneath the middle of the Mercury Villager. A cable comes from each rear wheel and then meets in the middle with the cable adjuster.

5

Turn the adjuster nut with your wrench or pliers until the parking brake pedal pushes down with 11 to 12 notches or clicks.

6

Push down fully on the parking brake pedal and verify the rear wheels do not move.

7

Lower your Mercury Villager using the jack and remove the jack stands from the rear wheels.