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Old Jan 19, 2018 | 05:35 PM
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Parking Brake Help

I replaced my rear end with a Ford 8.8 out of a 1999 explorer, I now have disc all around with the drum parking brake in the rear. I would like to use the factory park brake lever on the dash but I am having a hard time finding a parking brake setup that will work...


I've looked on rock auto for the replacement explorer brake cables and they aren't very expensive but I'm not sure it will work, I don't have the plate to join the two cables together...


I understand there is a lokar setup but all the ones I've looked at don't have the cable to run back to the parking brake lever.


What is everyone using for this swap?!
 
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Old Jan 19, 2018 | 06:12 PM
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this is the cable I used to go to original ebrake handle Lokar EC-8000HT you will also need the rear lokar cables
 
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Old Jan 19, 2018 | 08:32 PM
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I used the lokar cables and made a little bracket to hook my original park brake lever up to it. Mine is a 48 but I would think the same thing would apply. Its just a piece of square tubing with a hole drilled in 1 end to hook to the lokar clevis and a slot in the other for a cable clamp to fit into to clamp the stock brake lever cable.
 
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Parking brake linkage

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