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So in one of my previous posts I made a parts to mount my electric e-brake to my middle crossmember and couldn’t really go any further until the crossmembers were welded in and rear suspension finished. Anyway that’s been done for a while and I’ve been slowly plucking away at finishing the brackets to attach the rear GT350R e-brake cables.
I started out by making the gusset and some blind holes to fasten it to, cut a piece of rectangular tubing and welded them into the fallowing crossmember.
well after searching for the pictures I realized I forgot to take the ones of the crossmember but you’ll see in the finished what I’m talking about.
Ok what we have is the gusset, the rear e-brake cable bracket and retaining bolts. The bracket that pulls on the cables, the adjuster stud that gets crimped to the cable from the electric e-brake and the adjusting nut that spins inside the bracket.
Ok as we all know, many times a custom setup turns into more than expected and this is another one of those times.
So the factory e-brake cables for the 2016 Mustang GT350R are longer on the passenger side than the driver side and they have crimped on brackets to secure them to the mustang body. Obviously I don’t need those so I cut them all off but one that bolts to the knuckles. I didn’t like the how the passenger side cable was longer because there’s not a lot of room to make them work and before I realized it I already cut off the unnecessary brackets so there was no returning it and buying two driver side cables. Not only that the bracket that goes to the knuckles is right or left so I figured whatever I’ll make it work because it would be a pain in the #%} to make them.
Anyway I began fitting everything to cut the main cable for the adjuster stud and realized that the passenger cable stuck out further than the driver side and might not work that well and looked like crap so you guessed it, I had to order another driver e-brake cable that happened to be back ordered for a couple months so I could have two equal length cables and not only that I had to make more custom parts. Don’t get me wrong I like building custom parts but sometimes it gets out of hand lol.
Ok so what I did was purchase some aluminum P-clamps and drilled them out a bit bigger to fit the e-brake cable (I bought a pack of them as I planned on using them to secure the cable where I cut off the original clamps) then I made the left and right cable brackets. I drilled a press fit hole and used a stainless dowel for the locator because it was way easier than machining it in.
Beautiful work. The old Huey mechanic in me is wondering about galvanic corrosion if the aluminum is bolted to steel.
Thanks JohnNewb!! Very valid point! I always have corrosion protection on my mind so I had those parts anodized. Almost all the aluminum parts on the truck are anodized aside from the rad as I don’t know what would happen because I don’t know what they use for making the core. And for those who don’t know, only aluminum can be anodized and the process will actually destroy other metals. I actually wanted to anodized the rad but I really don’t want to throw out a brand new rad lol.
10-03-2021, 10:11 PM
