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All: I think this grommet is for the parking brake cable where it passes thru the firewall into the engine bay. Is that correct?
Note that the larger flange at the bottom is mostly missing, and that there is a vertical cut thru, presumably to allow the grommet to be paced around the cable.
Anybody have an idea where one can purchase a replacement?
Thx. Jeff (restoring a '66 F250)
I also have a 1966 F250 2WD and took apart my parking brake from front to back recently. Nothing that looked like that at the firewall. If you have the 1964-1972 parts manual it is in the Illustrated section 26 page 9. I also don't see anything that looks like a grommet at the firewall in the pictures. I've never seen anything like that on a 1966 F250 e-brake setup. Never seen one on any 1966 Ford F100 or F250 at all that I can recall.
Sort of small to see in detail, but same illustration is here.
It looks like what's left of your main wiring harness from your alternator to your alt. gauge. It WAS a permanent part of the harness.
Hard to tell what size it is as you have nothing in your pic to scale it from.
It looks like it got hot and melted in the middle.
Rusbukt: Thx for the input. This is the first clue I've had, that gives me a path to follow. Don't suppose you know part number or source of a replacement?
This site is awesome for the help restorers can get from other members. Thx again. Jeff
Rusbukt: Thx for the input. This is the first clue I've had, that gives me a path to follow. Don't suppose you know part number or source of a replacement?
This site is awesome for the help restorers can get from other members. Thx again. Jeff
If this is in fact part of the wiring harness. It was bonded onto the harness permanently. It is part of the harness not sold separately.
The big questions are. What is protecting your wiring harness where it passes through the firewall? And why did the harness get hot enough to melt that grommet in the first place?
Again I'm just assuming that's what that part was for.
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