Emergency brake cables.

[YBK]

I replaced left cable without the lift. Car had stock exhaust at that
time. It is very hard to reach there but possible. Make sure you have
new clip. Regarding the rusty nut on the rod my mechanic was able to
move it by applying a lot of heat. I was not present at the shop so I
can't provide any details. Haven't touched the thing for many years
since.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Kempf <jkempf at madriver.com>
Reply-to: jkempf at madriver.com
To: 'SAJanesick - Bellsouth' <sajanesick at bellsouth.net>,
200q20v at audifans.com
Subject: Emergency brake cables.
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:44:16 -0400

OK, I am under the car looking at the emergency brake at the front end. Talk
about an inconvenient place to do anything. My middle muffler was cut out
and replaced with stainless pipe so the exhaust is one piece front to back,
no easy way to take it apart and I would have to remove a cross member. 

The balance belcrank that holds the two front ends of the cables, the bolt,
and the nut are all really rusty but the mechanism still moves. 

Anyone BTDT? I can only sort of reach things in there. If I have to adjust
that thing it is going to have to come out and get cleaned and prepped
meaning that I probably have to do it through the center console to get the
rod out. If I did that I guess I could just get the parts out on the bench
and either clean and restore or get new.

Things at the back are pretty rusty. Would love to have the time, money,
energy to take everything apart and completely restore it but that isn't in
the cards right now.

Need to find someone parting out a calif car so I can get some clean parts I
guess. Looks like the rear height proportioning valve is frozen and some of
the lines back there I wouldn't want to disturb. One way to fix is to just
get a couple lines and a female/female adapter and bypass all that stuff.
Car has ABS so I can't imagine what good that stuff does if you know how to
drive. I have higher rear bias in all my other cars and I like them better
that way. 




jfk


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