Hi,
The parking brake button on our our '97 Subaru Outback fell off. This apparently happened awhile ago, but my wife never told me about. In any event, we don't have the button itself at this point.
We took the car in for service, and asked how much it would cost to repair, and they quoted $325!! They claimed that they had to replace the entire handbrake assembly ("ratchet").
Anyway, I told the dealer to not do the repair, and started searching for info on fixing it myself.
I found the following NG thread:
The procedure in the above thread says to pull the lever up. If, for some reason, I can't get the wirenut onto the rod, i.e., so still no button, how will we be able to then release the handbrake?
I have this image in my brain of getting half way through this repair, and then having the handbrake stuck :(...
Thanks in advance, Jim