i know this IS a noob question, but i need help tightening my hand brake on my bb6. to engage the hand-brake, i would have to pull the **** ALL the way up to the max. i want to tighten it so like 4 or 5 clicks would lock my rear wheels. any help is appreciated. i've done a search already but didnt come up with anything. i am either entering the wrong searches or this is so trivial that nobody ever posted it before. thanks in advance.

 

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do i tighten it with a phillip head or something?

 

Remove the console, then tighten the two 10 mm (maybe 12mm, not positive) adjustment nuts. It should be fairly obvious once you remove the console.

 

thank you sir

 

hmmm, how would i remove the console?
i'm guessing a stick flathead screwdriver under the console cover and then pop it right off? no screws to unscrew?

 

there are a few screws to unscrew....look at the base of the console.

I have a 94 lude, and i have 3 on each side in the front and 2 right on the bottom of the stereo. and in the back console i believe that there are about 4 screws holding that down. Please someone correct me if i am wrong though. hope that this helps.

 

You don't have to adjust in underneath the car?

 

do i have to remove the ENTIRE console? or just the top of it?

 

I can get to mine through the change pocket thingy. Its a 92Si. It would seem excessive to remove the whole thing.... but maybe some have too.

 

on the BB6 you most definitly cannot adjust the brake from under the coin/ashtay or under the car. you do have to take the center console mostly out, but it's not difficult at all, 4-6 screws from want I remember. kinda like adjusting brakes on a bicicle

 

i lifted the console a little but i could not remove it all the way because the hand brake handle is in the way. how would i remove the hand brake handle?

from what i see, there is one nut to tighten in order to tighten the hand brake cables?

 

Remove all the screws on either side of the console, inside the storage area (if there are any) - also, might be some screws in the cup holder area - unscrew the shift **** if it's a manual, pull the e-brake all the way up, then lift up the console from the back, and pull it all the way off. then you should see the wires from the e-brake leading from the back of the car towards the front.

 

i got the console unscrewed and it lifts, but the hand brake handle is in the way so i cannot remove the console completely. how would i remove the handle so that the console could be removed?

 

If it's a 5th gen, you don't remove the hand brake....just pull it up as far as it'll go, and then you can slide the whole console over it. This is how i did it on my 98 lude, and 96 accord. What year is your prelude?

 

mine is a 98

 

mines 95 but i think it works the same as 5th gen.
what i did was, there were 4 screws on the both side of the console (driver's side and passenger side) and there were 2 screw right below the AC controller, right above the steroe deck. i unscrewed all of them total 10 i think. then unscrew the shift ****, then pull the hand brake ALL the way up, even if you think its all the way up, try a little more, it moves 1 or 2 clicks more. then you just gotta kinda pop the console out and try pulling the console out diagonally, carefully lifting up the corner where it hits the hand brake. it should come out if you slowly move it up.

 

okay i got it off now. thanks alot.