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Don’t panic!  You haven’t lost anything and it is easily fixed.

Here is a drawing of what’s inside your ebrake lever:

40FFC321-588A-41DF-893B-69C7D09E7ED6That rod with the spring and black knob on it is #2, the pawl rod in the drawing.  The hook at the end of the rod fits over the top of the pawl, #8 in the drawing.  Sometimes, if the ebrake isn’t adjust right in the first place, the button on the pawl rod pushes the pawl too far and the ebrake lever is pulled up or pushed down too far and the pawl slips out of position, allowing the pawl rod to disengage and spring out of the lever.  This could have happened if someone (the trucker?) pulled up really hard on the lever - who knows...  It totally depends on how the thing was adjusted in the first place.

The fix is to take the vinyl/leather boot off of the ebrake lever so you can see what’s going on, release the lever all the way down, reach in to the inside of the lever and, with a screwdriver, maneuver the pawl into position to accept the pawl rod bent end over the top of the pawl to hold the two together.  Once that is done the spring on the pawl rod should pull the rod and pawl forward enough to engage the teeth, at the bottom of the pawl, with the gear rack (#5 in the drawing) in the ebrake base and everything should stay in place.  Typically, #5 is allowed to move a bit to allow everything to be assembled together.  If you can’t see how this all works you may have to remove the #9 lever retaining pin and take everything out to re-assemble it on a bench, but honestly, it’s easier to leave it all in there and play with different approaches til it all falls back together.

You may have to adjust the cable ends on the lever (#3 and #4 in the drawing) to insure that the pawl rod can’t slip off the pawl in the future, but you should be able to look down inside of the lever to see how it all works (it’s pretty simple) and figure out how to do that.

Buena Surete!

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