Remove 63 parking brake cables - is there a trick?

[Ed S.]

Re: Remove 63 parking brake cables - is there a trick?

IF you are trying to compress all the fingers on the cable to either install it or remove it - get a small hose clamp - the kind that you tighten with a bolt in it - piece of cake -

[Patrick H.]

Re: Remove 63 parking brake cables - is there a trick?

The Challenge is getting through the hole at the front of the frame. The clipped on area is at the rear of the frame tube but inside the tube and not exposed. So whatever you use has to be less than 3/4" diameter but about 6' to 8" long and then also be the proper inside diameter to compress the fingers.

Exactly.

And, you can't pull the cable out through the front as the rear fitting is too large.
The cable has to go backward.

[Patrick H.]

Re: Remove 63 parking brake cables - is there a trick?

IF you are trying to compress all the fingers on the cable to either install it or remove it - get a small hose clamp - the kind that you tighten with a bolt in it - piece of cake -

That won't work for the one inside the frame.

I'll try and get a photo tonight to show it.

[Richard M.]

Re: Remove 63 parking brake cables - is there a trick?

Patrick, Understood, are you trying to save the cable?

Rich

[Patrick H.]

Re: Remove 63 parking brake cables - is there a trick?

Nope.

Both sides are broken at the drum end and have to be replaced. However, if there's an easy way to remove them without using the Dremel, that's what I am after. The conduit trick sounds interesting.

Anyone can hack it off the car. I'm looking for the right way.

[Patrick H.]

Re: Remove 63 parking brake cables - is there a trick?

Attached are two photos.

Cable front shows them as viewed from the front of the car. This is the hole that has to be used to access the locking fingers discussed above.

Cable rear shows the cable with the retention washer. It's tight against the crossmember, and you cannot wiggle it. No access here.

Joe is stating that conduit inserted from Cable front (and I assume with a slit in it for the cable to go inside) will slide back and over the locking fingers to allow the cable to be withdrawn from the rear.

[Edward J.]

[Gerald C.]

Re: Remove 63 parking brake cables - is there a trick?

Size? About 1/2"???

[Patrick H.]

Re: Remove 63 parking brake cables - is there a trick?

I can check once I get home.

[Gerald C.]

Re: Remove 63 parking brake cables - is there a trick?

1/2" copper tubing won't go over the base of the cable inside the frame. The 1/2" aluminum conduit has thin wall? I have a piece and it fits, but just a bit too wide compress all of the fingers. Thoughts???

[Gerald C.]

Re: Remove 63 parking brake cables - is there a trick?

Is this 1/2" measurement and ID or OD?

[Edward J.]

Re: Remove 63 parking brake cables - is there a trick?

Is this 1/2" measurement and ID or OD?

Jerry, I do not have a piece or piping. But it is the same as indoor piping. I had some one locally that told me this, it’s been about 10 years ago. Memory???did you try tapping with a small hammer?

[Gerald C.]

Re: Remove 63 parking brake cables - is there a trick?

Ed,

The 1/2" thin wall tubing I have bottoms out against the chassis and I can see it on the inner cable with a flashlight that it is bottoming out. I'm going to an electrical supplier to see what I can find that might work.

Thanks

[Patrick H.]

Re: Remove 63 parking brake cables - is there a trick?

My piece of conduit is about 0.62 inside, 0.71 outside.
I got a 1 foot piece from an electrician friend. Any building project or electrician likely has scraps.
I did bevel the inner and outer edges of the cut to smooth them a bit and remove burrs.

[Gerald C.]

Re: Remove 63 parking brake cables - is there a trick?

Patrick,

I got a piece of conduit that fits the measurements you provided. The cables inside the chassis still won't release. Any other ideas that might help?

Thanks

Jerry