The e-brake cable snaps in in bracket behind the rear shoe. I changed my rear brakes two weeks ago. I can second RedThree's comments on it being an adventure.
I had various issues, but my e-brake was showing the same symptoms your was, and it was still connected. I believe the brakes were wore to a point that it wouldn't engage properly, or the automatic adjuster was malfunctioning. In fact, my suspicion was that the adjuster had been messing up for a while, and I had prematurely wore my brakes.
Depending on how many miles you have on it, I would suggest if you are going to tear that rear wheel out, go ahead and change the brakes/wheel cylinder while you are at it. You don't want to have to tear it out again in 1000 miles. I had 10K miles on mine and decided to change the rear tire as well.
If you do change your rear wheel brake cylinder, make sure you get the correct part. They mentioned that they use the same part on +8 brakes, however there is a (right) and a (left) side cylinder, as there is a roll pin used for alignment which is on opposite sides of the brake cylinders for the 4 wheeler. Not sure which one is the correct for the 3-wheeler, but I know I got the wrong one first.
Last edited by Sutton's Burrow; 27/12/17 06:45 PM.
