Parking Brake Backing Plate

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When I bought my ti, one of the non-functional items was the parking brake. My driveway is just sloped enough that the car will creep down it when parked in reverse with me in it, but won't once I get out. I kinda want to get it fixed.

Since I worked with PO I asked him about it. He handed me some of the parking brake parts when I bought it, so I knew that he had disabled it but didn't know why.

Turns out the brake shield on the driver's side had rusted and the pivot pins for the shoes had bent or come loose causing the brake to drag constantly. He didn't want to go into replacing the brake shield, so he kludged together some way of disabling the brake by removing some parts and messing with the cable at the center console.

What kind of job am I in for to change that brake shield? I tried to look it up at RealOEM and couldn't even find it on the diagrams. He said that the half shaft has to come out. I'm thinking it might have to stay broken.