Emergency brake cables.

[PeterBergin at aol.com]

Had mine replace with out removing the exhaust allso, was two hours labor  
for the all E-brake cables and some other minor stuff.
 
Pete
 
 
In a message dated 10/24/2011 5:54:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
b.benz at charter.net writes:

Replaced  mine without removing or cutting the exhaust. A real  PITA!

Bernie

On Oct 24, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Tony Hoffman  wrote:

> 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.
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