How to Make Parking Brake Adjustments in a Toyota Highlander

Making parking brake adjustments in your Toyota Highlander are somewhat challenging for a beginner because the adjustment requires you to get underneath the Toyota Highlander. Save money and adjust the parking brake yourself at home instead of taking your truck to the mechanic. You do not need to raise the Highlander on a lift; a simple pair of pliers is all you need.

Instructions

1

Test the parking brake to see how much you need to adjust the cables. The parking brake should click five to seven times when your foot depresses the pedal to the floor of the Highlander.

2

Release the parking brake pedal and note the number of clicks your Highlander needs adjusted.

3

Get underneath the Highlander and locate the cable in a "U" shape in the middle of the underneath.

4

Rotate the long nut attached to the cable at the end of the "U" shape. Move it around one way and move the smaller nut next to it the opposite way with pliers.

5

Adjust the nut located at the curve of the "U" shape cable. This also makes the parking brake cable tighter.

6

Press in on the parking brake cable with your foot until you hear five to seven clicks to test the adjustment.