hello all, i have a 1999 saturn sc1 5 speed i just bought last week for my first car (i'm 17 1/2 and am a senior in high school, in the autos program this year so i can get free labor for my car). and the emergency break works ive tried it on hills to test when i parked but it doesnt stay latched up do to the fact that theres no button. now do i need to replace the whole lever sum1 told me that or can i try to find a replacement button and then will it lock in place and work properly?

 

Sean, I don't know your answer because I have not had the problem. My 1994 Saturn emergency brake has not failed but everytime I have needed to find something out like that I have looked in my Mitchels service literature I bought at O'Rielly auto parts. Best 20 bucks I ever spent. For your first car, it pays to have something to look these things up into.
Sitting here I am going guess that you will probably have to replace the whole handle mechanism which probably is best found at an automotive Pick a Part junkyard if one is near you.

 

Actually, you can just replace the broken piece which is inside the metal handle. You need to remove the vinyl cover to see what I am referring to. I have the part sitting on my desk but I don't know how to post the pic on this post. I can send the pic to a phone or email. Ok, I'm not as dumb as I look....I figured it out and here it is.

 

alright thx, ill ask my autos teacher if he will help me replace that when school starts cus im not even sure how i'm new to our autos program all the stuff ik how to do is just under the hood nothing electronic or anything haha

 

To us old school guys, the young smarty pants with the lap top controlled 2 liter 11 second drag cars that are smog legal arn't real car guys! To us with the 500 cu in 11 sec muscle car complete with a quadrajet and couldn't pass smog on a bet, they aren't. That in the venacular of the crude is known as a Mexican standoff.
However since I have sort of one of both I'll pass on the comment and make this one instead. If your car shop class isn't teaching current technology there is something wrong with that picture.
Of course if you arn't learning it, u got no one to blame but yourself.
Of course you can always as a residence curmudgeon for help!

 

unc, he's new to the car thing ---

he's just tryin to fix his ebrake -- he's not up to dragsters

cut him some slack

 

It's a really simple repair. You can slide the vinyl sheath off the arm after removing one screw. Then you will see how it works. What have you got to lose...it's already broken. Are you just taking the class for the "free labor"?

 

no definitely not im going so i can know how to do a lot of stuff on cars more than i already know when im older. that and if i dont get into the university of minnesota i wanna go to a tech college near here and take mechanic courses on the side of the classes that id need in order to get into a bigger college so the autos class is to prepare me for later