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the brake cable line is probably stuck inside it's outer tubing. You have to remove the cable and free it up or replace it with a new cable and housing...i suggest that you gse a water resistant grease on the inner cable before re-installing the cable..DO NOT DRIVE THE VEHICLE UNTIL YOU RELEASE THE BRAKE
OK, The cable is Broken. So, What you need to do is, Folow the cable and, Release it by Hand. Please be sure That the transmission is in Park. At the end of the cable the steel wire should still be attached. To the release tab just pull the release tab or you may be able to pull the end of the broken Inter Cable. You'll need to place your, Head under the steering Column. To see the E Brake Assembly. You can't miss it.
You need to lower the underdash shroud. Couple 7mm nuts hold it on. Look to the left at the parking brake pedal. Follow along a black sort of tube to the end. That end will have a cable comming out of it. Follow the cable. The cable is attached to the parking brake release lever. Pull the cable or the release handle and the parking brake should release.
You can either get the cable repaired. Or you can cut the brake cables near the rear brake assembly. Or you can try stripping the cable release and pulling the cable from there.
For the time being, you can crawl down under the dash, follow the parking brake cable and see where it connects to the brake mechanism under the dash. You will be able to pull or pry on that part in order to release the parking brake. To replace, remove the cable from the points where it's attached (dash, brake release mechanism) and reinstall the new one.
Be sure that the parking brake lever is fully released. If the cable is broken it may not have the tension to return up by itself. Pull the parking brake release while with your other hand pulling up on the parking brake pedal completely.
Unless the brake cable is caught on something under your truck then they are already released.When you push the pedal down you pull on the cable engauging the P brakes,when you release the bakes you take tension off.
The parking brake cable should be replaced but in the short term try getting under the truck and grabbing the cable casing and move them around to get the seized cable inside the cable casing to release keep working the cable until it releases if this doesn't work replace both cables.
Same thing happened to me on my 2000 silverado July 3, 2009. There is a release next to the parking brake pedal. You have to reach way under the dash but it has worked for me for the last month. I have the part to fix it but haven't had the time.
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