E-brake repair, How to? 1987 4KCSQ

[LL - NY]

Don't forget to locknut the turnbuckle.

LL - NY

On 5/29/05, Brendan Walsh <audicted42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hey all, thanks for the replies, here's what i did (basically larry's
> suggestion). I cut off the remaining threaded portion, threaded about
> 1/2" using a 1/4-20 die, I then installed a 1" hex spacer, a new
> section of 1/4-20 threaded rod and voila! a functioning e brake. Next
> time I'll probably take everything off the car to do it, fighting
> around the drive shaft wasn't any fun. but i was in a hurry to get it
> back together. total cost in parts about 2 bucks, i think the threaded
> rod was about 98 cents and a bag of three spacers was 75 or so. I had
> the same thing happen on my coupe once but i was fortunate there was
> enough left, and the cable were slack enough to just clean off the
> smutz and put a new nut on.
> 
> Thanks all! Another fine adventure in Audi land!
> 
> Brendan
> 
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