Emergency brake cables.

[Tony Hoffman]

You can't remove it through the console, it has to be reached from under the
car. You will have to drop the exhaust. You can cut a section out, then use
the factory style Audi clamps if it's close to 2 1/8" I use them for my 2
1/4 as well. The proportioning valve is for different loads, meaning if you
load the car down it gives a higher rear bias.

I'd try spraying the adjsuter with PB blaster first, and see if it will free
up that way. Let it soak for a while, as in spray it every couple of hours
and sit for maybe a day or two.

HTH,
Tony

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Jay Kempf <jkempf at madriver.com> wrote:

> 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.