About E-brake cables and other things...

[Louis-Alain Richard]

Hi all,

Ordered today cables for rear brakes for my urQ. Followed your advices and ordered the 1984-style cables (857 609 721 D and E, 50$ each) instead of the correct 1982-1983 for my car (857 609 721B and C, 130$ each).

Q1- What will be the difference, what will I have to modify?

Q2- I did the pads and calipers e-brake mechanism last spring (remove, open, clean, lube with bearing grease, re-install), but they are still sticky ( it's cold up north now, below 0 Celcius).  Is this a lost cause? Calipers are original units, and are not leaking any fluid nor are rusty; they still look great.

Q3- Bleeding tips for this car please; sequence, is there a proportioning valve to cheat when rear wheels are un-loaded, liquid grade, etc?

 Cosmetic news: urQ 900463 is now 100% original, with its new quad DOT headlamps (lows are GE 4656High-Output, highs are Sylvania 4651CoolBlue variety, all sealed-beam DOT approved).  I don't want any blue-tint glow, that's why I sticked with sealed-beams.  To my eye, looks nicer too (not ricer, I said, nicer).  But they are a little dim, I should say.  There is only 8.5V for the lows and a bizarre combination for the high-beams: 9.2V inboard and 7.4V outboard. All these figures are engine non-running.  But even with such low voltage, the CoolBlue high-beams are the whiter (meaning very, very white) headlamps I ever saw. I will install the 4 relays tonight.

Q4- Fellow lister Brady Moffatt told me to relay the parking lamps circuit too, is this overkill now?

And being into it, I also acquired 2 normally-closed relays to make the little position lamps on the side of the car blinker off-sequence with the bumper-blinkers.  This will not prevent them to lit normally when not-flashing. Now, when changing lanes, others will see me better I hope.

Q5-I have a concern tough; will this setup upset the circuit and make the flashers blink slower (or faster)?

I will also do the left-side engine and tranny mounts; right side is brand new

Q6- any special tool or talent needed?


Thanks in advance,

Louis-Alain
1983 urQ, rapidly approaching 100 000 km.