Well I am having this issue for sometime now and have been told that it is comon problem.

I have set my handbrake to pull up to 5 clicks max. but when I release it, the brake shoes still rub agains the inner drums. I have shown car to guys at brakes plus and they tell me its a comon issue with magnas, if they will lose it up the handbrake will stop at 8-10 clicks but it is not recomended. They have told me to wait untill the brake shoes get rubbed off a bit.

Well strange thing is, the sound is there for a good 5000 k's and only hearable at very low speed or while reversing. but it is anoying. and if after 5000k its not gone how many , more k's it will take to wear out.

I still think that at rear inner drum something need to be oiled ( like few livers or pullies or springs) so that it disingage right away.

Any help or suggestion will be appritiated.

Tighten the cable from the inner drums, not from the handbrake itself, as less likely to damage the cable and cause it to snap.

My handbrake pulls up 3 or 4 clicks max after tightening.

My handbrake does the same thing being trying to get them to fix it everytime it goes in for a service they say they fix it but the noise remains.

Apparently there's a set of revised brake shoes available, for the TJ series at least, and some have had them replaced under warranty. Might be worth asking about next time you're near a dealership.

i just did mine a couple of weeks ago.
i took the shoes and calipers off and cleaned everything. when i put it back together i was told (with hand brake off) tighten the shoes with a screwdriver until the hub cant move and then click back 10 times only. I did twelve innitally cos i wanted to make sure i got rid of that BLOODY SCRAPING noise. 12 was too much. Adjust lever under console box if required.

Try jacking up the rear of your car and pull the handbrake on. See if you can turn the rear wheels by hand. I found one wheel would lock up OK but the other was easily turned around. Could use the handbrake with the car facing uphill but was pretty useless facing downhill.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, mechanic coudn't fix it and I ended up finding that a small pin inside the parking brake cylinder had been dislodged and was sitting inside the rubber dust boot over the lever the cable connects to. Took a bit of fiddling but finally got it set up properly between the two brake shoe caps on the cylinder. My weird noises went away and my parking brake is now excellent whichever way the car faces on a hill.

after over 6 months my cars finally booked in at mitsu to have this looked at tomorrow :D:Dlol

my handbrake is ****ED.

it has been ever since i bought my car basically.

its been rebuilt once by a mate and it just keeps ****ing up. thanks mitsubishi

after over 6 months my cars finally booked in at mitsu to have this looked at tomorrow :D:Dlol

Waiting from an update from you mate.:)

Same thing here. But once I have used the HB and move, I keep pulling it few times and the shoes "reset" them selves to the rotating drums and the squeaking vanishes.
What I discovered is that the internal adjustment screw seems to slip. I have used thread gue on one and that worked. So when I feel energetic again, I'll do the other one. Prob is - if it glues it too well.... But yee, the correct method to adjust HB is to do it at the drum end first, ensure they are similar, THEN tighten the cable in the console.

Waiting from an update from you mate.:)

440 bucks later..... here i am, with a handbrake, not worth it IMHO

damn man that is expensive, what they did ??? like installed the whole system again ???

damn man that is expensive, what they did ??? like installed the whole system again ???

3 new cables, all the linings etc. were fine, the parts werent expensive, the labour was the real killer. it feels good now though :)

cool , thanks mate

Actually, to fix the problem with the handbrake squealing I've found that if the first thing you do before driving off is to hold the lever on and then gently reverse so the car just rocks into it, it won't make a sound. This could be absolutely catastrophic to the handbrake for all I know, but it seems to work lol

the modified/improved handbrake shoes are for all magnas from TE - early TL.. so, if you have the scraping noise at low speed from the rear wheels, best bet would be to replace the handbrake shoes with the improved type

Actually, to fix the problem with the handbrake squealing I've found that if the first thing you do before driving off is to hold the lever on and then gently reverse so the car just rocks into it, it won't make a sound. This could be absolutely catastrophic to the handbrake for all I know, but it seems to work lol

We this kind of the solution brakesplus guys also suggested. first the told me that I am not the only one with brake shoe noise problem and it is very comon among magna's. He also suggested that to for up to a 100km try with very little Handbrake on at very low speeds and for max 1-2 minutes time and it should solve the problem. So I will try that.

What MitsuMad said is the next solution.

But what I really want to know is why making noise after 50,000 km. why not when the pads were brand new.??