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**'68OrangeSunshine** · 03-23-2024, 04:43 AM

Sorry. I diodn't get that you are working from a bare frame.
You are handicapped by not having OEM parts to imitate and re-use.
Yes, now that I see the picture, I know what you mean.

My old cable had some kind of ''shuttlecock'' one-way locking device. It was a total PIA to get loose. I had to slip a 1/2 - 3/8'' hose clamp on the steel ''feathers'' to compress them and worm the cable out.
The replacement one would never go in all the way.
I settled for good positive brake stopping power at the pedal and let it go.
It's feathers might still protrude a half inch or so. I'm hoping regular action on a daily driver will get it to work itself in.

I looked for a thread of my own E-Brake saga, around last year, but I can't locate it under Subscribed Threads in the User CP section, or I'd try to link it. My question there, ''was which end comes loose to repair a broken inner cable?''
Answer was Both.
Title was something like,
''My E-Brake, Broke.''

Can you send a link to the YouTube clip you showed screeshots of?

03-23-2024, 04:43 AM	#14
'68OrangeSunshine Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Tucson, AZ USA Posts: 7,064	Re: Parking brake cable to pedal assembly Sorry. I diodn't get that you are working from a bare frame. You are handicapped by not having OEM parts to imitate and re-use. Yes, now that I see the picture, I know what you mean. My old cable had some kind of ''shuttlecock'' one-way locking device. It was a total PIA to get loose. I had to slip a 1/2 - 3/8'' hose clamp on the steel ''feathers'' to compress them and worm the cable out. The replacement one would never go in all the way. I settled for good positive brake stopping power at the pedal and let it go. It's feathers might still protrude a half inch or so. I'm hoping regular action on a daily driver will get it to work itself in. I looked for a thread of my own E-Brake saga, around last year, but I can't locate it under Subscribed Threads in the User CP section, or I'd try to link it. My question there, ''was which end comes loose to repair a broken inner cable?'' Answer was Both. Title was something like, ''My E-Brake, Broke.'' Can you send a link to the YouTube clip you showed screeshots of? __________________ Every 25 years I like to rebuild that 292, whether it needs it or not. Last edited by '68OrangeSunshine; 03-23-2024 at 04:57 AM.